Lack of funding threatens project helping homeless at Brooklyn Center hotel The program has served more than 80 families but could end in just days. By Tim Harlow Star Tribune MARCH 25, 2021 — 8:54PM https://www.startribune.com/lack-of-funding-threatens-project-helping-homeless-at-brooklyn-center-hotel/600038718/ RENÉE JONES SCHNEIDER • STAR TRIBUNE Howanda Williams showed the bedroom she decorated for her oldest daughter Mary, left, who is

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