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With the possibility of severe weather looming, the Lawrence Community Shelter, city and volunteers are preparing to ensure everyone who needs a warm place to sleep will have one.
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In keeping with tradition, Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday chose their next mayor and vice mayor.
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Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will consider adding about $757,000 to its 2024 agreement with the Lawrence Community Shelter for LCS to construct new Pallet shelters, fix up the Monarch Village and purchase “amnesty lockers.”
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Planning commissioners on Wednesday voted in favor of plans to build 24 new cabin-like Pallet shelters behind the Lawrence Community Shelter building to provide up to 48 people overnight shelter through the winter.
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Lawrence voters will soon decide whether to approve a sales tax increase that would add 1 cent per $20 spent in order to fund affordable housing and homelessness services. Here are some FAQs about the sales tax, what it would cost you, and what it would fund.
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About 20 people living among the trees behind the Amtrak station in East Lawrence are moving to other camps with assistance from the city as the Amtrak camp’s closure looms.
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The Lawrence Community Shelter is planning to randomly assign two unhoused people night by night to sleep inside each of the 24 Pallet shelters — tiny cabins — to be built behind the main shelter.
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Sarah Swan was apprehensive about moving from a camp into Pallet shelter village. Now, as one of dozens of people who have been exited back to the streets, she’s angry, sad and concerned about how the program is being operated.
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“Hello! Outreach! Anybody here?”
Following Lawrence’s Homeless Response Team members on their visits to camps shed light on the issues both simple and complex that some folks living outside are facing.
Lawrence and Douglas County will be under an excessive heat warning Monday through Thursday this week, with heat index values well above 100° possible.
