ETV examines homeless with week-long series

Leon Scott Jr., who lay under the shade of a palmetto tree on Marion Square Friday, is just one of the estimated 5,066 homeless people in the tricounty area.

Scott, 57, paints on small cards to make money. He said he traveled the world during a stint in the Navy and now he just sleeps wherever he finds himself at night.

"I find plenty of houses suitable for what I do," Scott said.

The black man wearing two coats over a sweatshirt represents just one of the subgroups of homelessness that ETV will examine with a week-long series "Give Me Shelter" which begins airing Sunday.

ETV producers captured homelessness on urban street corners, but Juan Singleton, ETV advance producer director, examined the rural Lowcountry and found dilapidated trailers and broken down cars.

For a full schedule of the ETV "Give Me Shelter" line up, go to the ETV Web site

The first show in the series airs at 10:30 a.m. Sunday with Piedmont Politics. The series concludes at 7 p.m. Saturday with "Who Among Us," a documentary examining people living in Charleston homeless shelters.

Read more in Sunday's Post and Courier.