Freezing weather pushes homeless into busy airport

ATLANTA — The world’s busiest airport has increasingly become a refuge for Atlanta’s homeless, especially during cold weather.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the domestic terminal is sometimes filled with homeless people overnight and into the early morning.

There have periodically been some homeless people at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, a public terminal open 24 hours a day.

But after the closure of a large shelter downtown and a prolonged spate of frigid temperatures, large numbers of homeless have been using the airport to escape the cold.