A homeless shelter on Jacksonville’s Northside has closed, leaving about 70 people without a place to sleep.

Overflow Health Alliance is now empty and no longer able to serve those in need. A letter obtained by News4JAX instructed a person using the facility’s transitional housing program to vacate with all their belongings by the end of the day.

Marcus Harden-Givens, chief operating officer of Overflow Health Alliance, says the shelter had been providing vital services to the community but has faced significant obstacles.

“Quite frankly, I think that our shelter in the short time that we were open, we did more than any of the shelters that has been here in the past 30 years,” Harden-Givens said.

He explained that the shelter had about 200 beds available and that residents were satisfi

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