Columbia grapples with its homeless population

By Robert Behre

The Post and Courier

While leaders have backed away from a controversial plan to lock up Columbia’s homeless or ship them out of town, they still are figuring out how to solve a problem many agree is getting worse.

The greatest concentration of the city’s homeless may be seen several blocks north of the state Capitol, where a new $12 million facility has opened to provide shelter and other programs to help the homeless.

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