SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Locals in the Shreveport and Bossier City areas say poverty and homeless rates are going down, but there’s still work to be done.

" I know Shreveport, Bossier, our area gets a lot of bad rap for all the stuff that happens in crime and all that stuff, but we have a great community. And we’re believing for greater things. We’re believing that our community is going to turn around,"

Larry Otwell, the Executive Director of Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, says their mission is to change cities one life at a time. They do so by offering more than food and a warm bed. Here, locals can enter recovery programs, receive housing benefits, and transition back into the workforce.

“So every person that comes in here, gets a job, gets back on their feet, goes back into soci

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