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California State University Bakersfield to hold Homeless in Bakersfield: A Community Discussion event

Homelessness has been the topic of conversation for a number of months and now the public has a chance to be apart of it.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — California State University Bakersfield is holding its Homeless in Bakersfield: A Community Discussion event.

University officials say it will bring three experts on the front line of the ongoing issue. Bakersfield Homeless Center Executive Director Louis Gill, Shawn Morrissey from the Union Station Homeless Services and Dorothy Edwards from the Housing Works of California.

READ ALSO: Officials say over 100 veterans in Bakersfield are homeless

The event takes place on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Dezember Reading Room of the Walter Stiern Library.

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