More than $300 million in federal funding for fighting homelessness across the U.S. is up for grabs, and Douglas County and the City of Lawrence want about $3 million of it for supportive housing projects and a special team to work with homeless residents.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is going to award $322 million to help local governments address unsheltered and rural homelessness, and ...
Researchers who've been studying traffic stops in Douglas County say some of the racial disparities in their data might be evidence of racial profiling, but they can't say for sure without more investigation.
As the Journal-World previously reported, the study commissioned by the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council has shown significant disparities between white drivers and drivers of color, including that ...
The Community Blood Center of Kansas City, LMH Health’s blood supplier, announced a blood emergency Monday morning and launched a “Pint for a Pint” campaign in an effort to recruit donors.
In a press release, the Community Blood Center cites the region’s ongoing heatwave, summer travel and a recent spike in COVID-19 cases as the causes of a significant decrease in donations throughout the past several ...
The City of Lawrence announced Monday it is moving forward with donating about five acres of city-owned land to local nonprofit Tenants to Homeowners, which the agency will use to develop more than 100 affordable housing units in west Lawrence.
The 4.64 acres of land is at the corner of Kansas Highway 10 and Bob Billings Parkway, directly adjacent to a 10-acre parcel of land Tenants to Homeowners already owns. ...
As the Douglas County Commission wrapped up the process of allocating $21 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding last month, one request that made the cut was from the Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center, which was seeking funding to support a move into a larger office space.
It’s especially fitting that the $184,500 in pandemic relief funding granted to the center will allow it to make that move — ...
From the start of 2020 to the end of 2021, Black drivers were nearly three times as likely as white drivers to be pulled over for a traffic stop in Douglas County, according to a study examining law enforcement contact with people of color.
The study of pedestrian and traffic stops was commissioned in 2019 by the Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, and the results were published in a report ...
