![Catholic Charities of Acadiana's Kim Boudreaux at Joseph Shelter](https://media.thecurrentla.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/14155645/kim-boudreaux.jpg)
How are other communities handling rising homelessness?
Catholic Charities has joined six other local housing organizations in asking Lafayette Consolidated Government for a more permanent solution to homelessness — $6.5 million to purchase an out-of-use hotel that would be retrofitted into a permanent, low-barrier, non-congregate shelter.