Community center on the west side brings new solutions to growing number of unhoused [Video]

INDIANAPOLIS— Offering new solutions to one of Indy’s growing problems: homelessness.

A new community center on the city’s west side is offering not only food, showers, a place to do laundry but also so much more.

The Westside New Day Center sits under the West Morris Street Free Methodist Church and is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays.

The center offers help for emotional healing, as well as community resources for employment, and housing assessments for those who don’t have a place to live.

To put the problem into perspective: Indianapolis’s 2024 Point In Time Count found that around 1,700 people slept in emergency housing or went unsheltered which is a 5% change from last year.

“There’s a lot more of a person past the trauma and addiction,” said Director KT White. “That’s what we tend to find here is that we can look past all …