Cedar Rapids, Ia (AP)- A Cedar Rapids organization is transforming more than two dozen shelter beds into transitional housing in hopes of helping people make permanent changes in their lives. Mission of Hope decided recently to remove 28 shelter beds at two buildings and to reopen the shelters as transitional housing in the spring. Executive Director Kim Reem told The Gazette the group made the decision after coming to the conclusion it was “enabling people to continue to live in crisis.” She noted the group was feeding lunch to some of the same people it served when it opened 17 years ago.
