The City of Greensboro will look for $200,000 for a homeless center at tonight’s meeting.

Who better than the homeless to dictate what a homeless center should look like:

Local grass-roots groups have been working with homeless residents since winter to try to identify the needs for a center. Since March, Greensboro Councilwoman T. Dianne Bellamy-Small, working with city leaders and community groups, has been trying to find a place to put the resource center and an agency to run it.

….In the past year, Greensboro’s homeless community started brainstorming about what a local day center would look like. People need things such as laundry facilities, lockers and computer access, advocates said.

Anyone else see it? I guess the reporter’s just writing what’s fed to her. Maybe she just couldn’t think of a better word. But when you present the homeless as effective “brainstormers,” my gut reaction is maybe they could do some brainstorming to get, like, a home.