Little Rock breaks ground on project to provide transition housing for homeless people

Little Rock city officials and local homeless advocates took part in a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday morning on a $3 million project meant to help homeless people transition to permanent housing. The project, a Micro Home Village that will be able to house 206 people at a given time, broke ground at 3405 W. Roosevelt Road. The land, which will eventually house 80 non-congregate beds in phase one, 20 emergency shelter beds and a 5,000 square foot community center, is on a 2-acre property that is the former site of the...