LANCASTER, S.C. — The City of Lancaster does not have a homeless shelter. When people come to HOPE in Lancaster, a nonprofit that helps with short-term crisis assistance, the agency’s workers would normally put them up in hotel rooms for several days or coordinate a stay at homeless shelters in neighboring counties.
Bekah Clawson, the director of HOPE in Lancaster, says she can no longer use those options.
“We have no immediate places to put anybody that’s evicted,” Clawson said. “Our surrounding counties have been willing to take people. But now as we call them and say we’ve got folks and we don’t have shelter, they’re telling us, ‘Well we have our own, we have no room for yours.”
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