At least 4,000 Oklahomans are homeless on any given night – that’s 10 people per 10,000 in the general population. And we’re not just talking adults: Oklahoma City’s public schools served nearly 2,000 children experiencing homelessness in the 2021-22 school year.
Yet, last week, Gov. Kevin Stitt arbitrarily dissolved the Governor’s Interagency Council on Homelessness, leaving Oklahoma without a statewide strategy for addressing a growing problem.
For this week’s Observercast – Let The Unhoused Eat Cake – fourth-term state Rep. Monroe Nichols of Tulsa helps us unpack the governor’s head-spinning decision and offers ways Oklahomans can help make things better for the least of these among us.
Oklahoma Observercast