Leaders with the Lawrence Community Shelter on Thursday released a letter acknowledging the “devastating consequences of homelessness in our community” in the wake of several recent deaths.
As the Journal-World has reported, deaths among people experiencing homelessness have mounted to at least eight in less than two years. That includes two especially recent deaths — the fatal stabbing of 51-year-old ...
Story updated at 9:21 p.m. Thursday, March 14:
Camp New Beginnings, the city’s support site for people experiencing homelessness, is set to close for good at 1 p.m. Monday.
A city spokesperson shared details about the next steps in closing the camp with the Journal-World Thursday afternoon. On Monday, portable toilets and the city’s trailer at the camp located behind Johnny’s Tavern will be removed. The ...
A new affordable housing project for seniors is aiming to break ground in west Lawrence by April 2025 and open a year later.
On Wednesday, members of Lawrence’s Public Incentives Review Committee heard more about the Peaks of Lawrence project hoping to develop at 5275 W. Sixth St. and voted unanimously to approve developer Resource Housing Group’s request for industrial revenue bond financing that would ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority and Tenants to Homeowners are one step closer to potentially receiving a little under $500,000 in combined federal funding.
Members of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board approved $480,000 in allocations for this year’s round of HOME Investment Partnerships Program funding — a grant program facilitated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter’s community of Pallet cabins for people experiencing homelessness is less than a week away from welcoming its first residents.
The first residents at The Village, the community of 64-square-foot cabins at 256 N. Michigan St., will move in on Monday, March 18 — a year after the Lawrence City Commission first initiated the process of launching the shelter project. On Tuesday ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, District Court and mental health providers are launching a new local process for evaluating defendants’ mental competency and offering outpatient treatment for restoration of competency.
The Sheriff’s Office announced the new local competency restoration treatment program — which it believes to be the first in the state — in a news release Tuesday afternoon. The ...
