Last year, when Minnesota stopped paying state benefits to single, unemployed men to help them return to work, Minneapolis officials knew some of them would end up homeless as a result. But its shelters had no room, so the county opened a spartan place called a "Secure Waiting Area" to handle the new population of homeless. Now, that too, is full...and local charities are bracing for another wave, now that federal disability benefits to people addicted to drugs and alcohol ended on January 1st of this year. Minnesota Public Radio's John Biewen (BEE-wen) reports.
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