Housing is a hand up not a hand out

Although National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week is behind us, we must continue to acknowledge that there are a number of homeless men, women, teenagers, children and entire families in our community. Every two years the county of Orange conducts the Point-In-Time Count, a census administered on a given night of the homeless in our communities. The PIT Count, which represents a snapshot in time, revealed a troubling trend in 2017 — a 7.6 percent increase in the number of homeless w