On Monday, Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board could move to recommend that the City of Lawrence adopt utility payment plan options for residents experiencing financial difficulties.
Approving a letter of support to that end is one of the items on the agenda for the board’s Monday meeting. Specifically, the letter calls for the Lawrence City Commission to direct the city’s Finance Department to ...
Though the Lawrence Community Shelter Board of Directors hasn’t yet approved a new funding request to submit to the City of Lawrence, it could do so in the next week.
Board members discussed that funding request during a special meeting Thursday morning at The Village, 256 N. Michigan St., the site of the city’s community of Pallet cabins for people experiencing homelessness. As the Journal-World has ...
While members of the Land Development Code Update Steering Committee didn’t take a look at any new sections of the revised rules for how Lawrence should grow on Thursday, they did participate in plenty of discussion about incentives and energy.
As the Journal-World has reported, the group is currently in the process of revising the Land Development Code for the first time since 2006, and they’ve gotten a ...
On Wednesday, the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence teamed up with AT&T to distribute 200 laptops to local families and students.
The laptops distributed in Lawrence are just a small fraction of the 26,000 being distributed across the country thanks to a $10 million donation from AT&T to Human-I-T, an organization working to create equitable access to opportunity by providing free devices and internet ...
A couple dozen community members gathered at the Carnegie Building in downtown Lawrence on Wednesday night to share their thoughts about how to support people experiencing homelessness.
The forum was facilitated by a coalition of local housing organizations including Ecumenical Campus Ministries, Lawrence Mutual Aid, Lawrence Tenants, People’s Owned and Operated Collective Housing and the Sanctuary Alliance. ...
The three newest members of the Lawrence City Commission were sworn into office Tuesday night, and the new commission selected Lawrence’s next mayor — Bart Littlejohn.
Incumbents Brad Finkeldei and Amber Sellers and former commissioner Mike Dever were seated at Tuesday’s City Commission meeting, with Dever replacing outgoing commissioner Courtney Shipley. Both Finkeldei and Sellers will be serving a ...
