PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - After months of uncertainty, an Upstate shelter could get to keep its home.

The first and only homeless shelter in Pickens County, the Shelter of Hope, has new hope, as they’ve been given the chance to buy their building after renting it for years.

“I am feeling blessed and also relieved. Very relieved. It’s been long about six months,” Tracy Gantt, founder of Shelter of Hope, said.

Gantt said the opportunity to buy their building has been months in the making and is one that’s tested the shelter’s faith.

“I never had this many problems trying to do good in the community,” Gantt said. “The reason why we didn’t stop, because God did not stop, He did not give up on us.”

FOX Carolina News first told you in July the shelter could be forced to move a

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