I agree that faith-based organizations hold potential as shelters. However, I'd suspect that adequate staffing, security and liability issues, along with insurance represent significant barriers for many of them to overcome in any such effort. In terms of government efforts, Hennepin County with it's social service-related programs (with fed/state/local funds) should be the main provider of shelter facilities, not Minneapolis with it's more meager stream of property tax revenue. And, as Barb suggests, there's no reason the city and County can't work together, possibly hand-in-hand with some faith-based groups. As for the topic thread title above, all efforts like this begin and end with individual efforts. Hopefully we've seen the last of the severely cold weather for this heating season.
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