Over the past month, housing assistance resources in Tompkins County have faced multiple financial and resource-related challenges. While the county is working on adapting to the immediate challenges of the shelter system, two key housing programs that help individuals transition out of homelessness — the Village and Sunflower House — are struggling to remain afloat. 

Ithaca College students organized a sleep out and raised $500 for Second Wind, a local nonprofit that helps homeless individuals through housing and services.

We are even more caught up in our campus bubble more than ever, making it all too easy to overlook the suffering of many community members around us.

CoreLife Eatery hosted a fundraiser Jan. 18 to raise money for Ithaca's homeless crisis, which hit an all-time high in 2017.

There is an Ithaca homeless crisis. Homelessness in Ithaca is at an all-time high and there have been several deaths that have accompanied this tragedy.