Homeless Shelter Essay

My family moved many times while I was growing up. However, near the end of my 4th grade, we settled in a very small, non-diverse town in Minnesota. My parents were in the hotel business and one day I saw a homeless man ask for a place to stay. My father allowed him to stay for the night since it was snowing outside and the temperature was below freezing. I could not stand knowing that there were people on the street who did not have a place to sleep at night. Upon doing more research, I discovered that my town, Grand Rapids, did not have a homeless shelter. Because the town did not have many homeless people, it never felt the need to create a shelter. However, the number of homeless people was slowly increasing and I saw this as a huge