Homelessness persists across SC

By Mike Switzer

Published November 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM EST

Mike Switzer, host of the South Carolina Business Review

Homelessness continues to be an issue across the country and here in our state. Many solutions have been proposed and tried, yet the problem remains. Mike Switzer interviews Kyle Harding, executive director of the Oliver Gospel Mission in Columbia, SC. (This is a replay of an episode that originally aired on September 11, 2025)

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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