Hot meal programs for homeless are stretched thin in East Cleveland

If you're hungry or homeless in East Cleveland, finding a free hot supper on a cold night isn't easy, especially at the beginning of the month. 

"If it's the beginning of the month, you either go hungry or you have to travel," said Brian Davis, director of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless.

Davis said the end-of-the-month meal schedules evolved years ago to serve poor people running short on their monthly allotments of food stamps.  But today, he said, poverty is much more pervasive, especially in places like East Cleveland.

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