The two urban counties take different approaches to dealing with homelessness, local officials said. That is a wrong approach, Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk said. The homeless, how we help those people, should not be an urban, city issue. In Tarrant County, several shelters and missions are in Arlington. Many other services are concentrated in one neighborhood of Fort Worth, along East Lancaster Street southeast of downtown.
Officials call the area the Campus.
The homeless have named it the Community of Hope. There, emergency shelters, transitional housing, mental-health programs, veterans' programs and other services are offered within a mile of one another. The concentration makes for a smoother, more efficient delivery of services, officials said. Nonetheless, he offered kind words for his fellows to the east. Gaps in services In both counties, many needs remain unmet.