There aren’t any brick and mortar homeless shelters between Waynesville and Murphy – a gap of around 80 miles . Instead the counties in between operate other types of programs. BPR’s takes us to a new such program in Jackson County: Leah Szittai has been experiencing homelessness since this summer. Now 31 years old, she was living in a tent in a friend’s backyard with her boyfriend. “It was rough. Really rough,” says Szittai, who is from Michigan but has been living in Jackson County for over 15