Homeless

Home Sweet Home Ministries has officially launched the Build the Bridge campaign, a new fundraising effort to help construct its planned shelter village. The campaign's goal is $750,000.

The purchase of a Connect Transit lot in Bloomington keeps shelter village construction on schedule and within budget.

The Connect Transit board has approved the sale of a vacant lot for a planned shelter village in Bloomington. The village, called The Bridge, is intended to be a low-barrier, non-congregate shelter for the unhoused population in Bloomington-Normal.

The McLean County Board's Executive Committee on Monday unanimously approved a request for money to partially fund Home Sweet Home Ministries’ non-congregate shelter known as The Bridge.

Home Sweet Home Ministries will present a grant proposal Monday that, if approved, would cover almost half the money needed to build a proposed shelter village for the unhoused in Bloomington called The Bridge.

A major sewer construction project is moving forward in Normal, near Sugar Creek, now that a tent encampment has dispersed.

A tent encampment near AutoZone in Normal was set to disperse Sunday due to a coming construction project, but a few residents still remain.

Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamation District and the Town of Normal have been working with Home Sweet Home Ministries on how to best handle disbursing the encampment along Sugar Creek near Auto Zone.

The City of Bloomington and Town of Normal have launched a website that wants to make it easier to help the unhoused in the Twin Cities. The campaign has two goals in mind.

The Bloomington City Council has given its official endorsement of The Bridge, a shelter village of close to 50 tiny sleeping cabins for the unhoused in Bloomington-Normal. Here's what's next.