A nonprofit group aiming to address housing insecurity may proceed with its plans for a thrift store in Knox. The city’s board of zoning appeals Monday approved the Starke County Resource Center’s special use request for the former Knights of Columbus building at 503 East Lake Street, with the explicit stipulation that the property shall not be used as a homeless shelter.
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A year after a local nonprofit group shelved its plan to put a homeless shelter in the former Knights of Columbus building in Knox, its alternate plan for the space is now in limbo, as well. The Starke County Resource Center has taken possession of the building at 503 East Lake Street.
Continue readingWhile the Starke County Resource Center’s goal of setting up a full homeless shelter is on hold, plans for a daytime warming center are quickly moving ahead. A number of potential volunteers, most of them affiliated with local churches, gathered Monday at the Trinity Assembly of God Church in Knox, where it would be housed. Among other things, they looked at how to go about providing meals, clothes, resources, and programs to people who need help.
Continue readingThe group behind a proposed homeless shelter has withdrawn its request for the Knox BZA’s permission to use the Knights of Columbus building, at least for now. City officials say a public hearing that had been scheduled for next Monday has been canceled.
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Many Starke County residents are experiencing housing insecurity every day, but currently the resources they need can only be found outside the county. That’s according to Matt Ohime, the pastor of Davis Wesleyan Church who’s spearheading the effort to organize a Starke County Resource Center.
Continue readingWhether or not a homeless shelter belongs in a residential area was debated during Monday’s Knox Board of Zoning Appeals meeting. A nonprofit group called the Starke County Resource Center is seeking the board’s permission to use the Knights of Columbus building at 503 East Lake Street as a “temporary housing facility for displaced Starke County residents.”
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