Colder days and nights call for a warm hearth, though, for some that is not easy to find, and being stranded in the cold may not be new for them.
Recent stories posted on news outlets present the problems of the unhoused, and the current solutions. But an easy review of the durability of the problem can be found in the 1970s news footage of WABI among the NHF collections.
Here are a few of the clips that have recently been digitized and uploaded to the NHF public website, with support of an NEH grant, about Bangor’s struggles and application for urban renewal funding to solve the problem then.
https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/21908
https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/3751
