BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Brunswick City Leaders are looking for new ways to address homelessness in the city. On Monday, the city commissioners held a meeting with local advocates, outreach groups and law enforcement to discuss what they need to do next.

One idea was to potentially close parks overnight but some advocates, like Wright Culpepper, the Executive Director at FaithWorks, say that might not be the best solution.

"It's one thing to say you can't be here, but when you run them off from here there's no place to run them to," said Culpepper.

FaithWorks operates several homeless outreach services in Brunswick including Open Doors, Sparrows Nest, and the Well .

"One of the big issues I think that people that are homeless have is they don't get a night's sleep, and they have to fend off

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