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Rural Homelessness Ground Zero: Inside West Virginia’s Hidden Crisis

Rural Homelessness Ground Zero: Inside West Virginia’s Hidden Crisis

Update: 2025-08-07
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Rural homelessness is exploding across America — and West Virginia is Ground Zero.


People are living in tents on their own land. Others survive in trailers without water, power, or help. Zach Brown, CEO of the West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, joins us to expose the hidden crisis most Americans never see.


We talk about the lack of shelter beds, the rise in criminalization, the failure of mental health systems, and how one rural organization is building housing from the ground up — not waiting for someone else to fix it.


If you think homelessness is just an urban issue, this conversation will challenge everything you thought you knew.


This is rural homelessness. This is Ground Zero. This is West Virginia.

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Rural Homelessness Ground Zero: Inside West Virginia’s Hidden Crisis

Rural Homelessness Ground Zero: Inside West Virginia’s Hidden Crisis

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