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The bill prohibits following people, blocking the road or approaching someone in an intimidating way to ask for money. It also bars people from soliciting on a public bus, near a bank, on private property and at night.

Seventy businesses and organizations have co-signed The District's letter asking Columbia leaders to address the city's "urban camping" problem.

Waypoint was designed to accommodate a significant number of people who need a consistent place to overnight in Columbia.

Columbia counted 309 homeless people in 2025, a number that is roughly consistent with the totals recorded over the past few years.

The campus will be a resource to Boone County residents who are homeless or otherwise in need of help.

Local shelters are pooling their resources as temperatures are expected to drop again this weekend.

The contract with Utah-based waste management firm EnviroServe has a term of one year and is renewable.

Plans for Columbia's one-stop shop for homeless services has been in the works since 2021 and has experienced delays since.

The move offers a preview of the Opportunity Campus — a one-stop-shop for homeless services currently under construction and expected to be completed by next spring.

CoMo Mobile Aid is a local grassroots organization that sets up outside the local overnight shelter, Room the Inn [RATI], twice a week – offering a pop-up thrift store, a wound care station and a large, converted van where folks can get all sorts of essentials: from band aids and Tylenol to menstrual pads and shampoo.