This week, the Lawrence City Commission is set to learn more about the partners that will make up the city’s new Homeless Response Team. At Tuesday’s City Commission meeting, commissioners will hear more about the team from Misty Bosch-Hastings, the city’s Director of Homeless Solutions. As the Journal-World has reported, Bosch-Hastings has been working to launch a multidisciplinary homeless outreach team ...
Lie back on one of the beds for night-by-night guests in the Lawrence Community Shelter and look up. What you might see is a grid of reddish support beams; long industrial light fixtures; pipes and wires that stand out against the gray ceiling. There's corrugated metal on the walls; a concrete floor, with bright yellow posts occasionally jutting out; and a huge, truck-sized garage door. That's because this ...
For the kids at Limestone Community School, understanding the need for affordable housing isn’t rocket science. Over the course of more than a year, the school’s second and third grade students have been studying ways to get more people in the community into secure housing. They've learned about zoning and land acquisition, drawn their own floor plans — and thanks to a partnership with Tenants to ...
The U.S. Department of the Interior missed the deadline to respond to a letter from U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran’s office urging a “systemic overhaul” of the federal office that oversees Haskell Indian Nations University, the Journal-World has learned. As the Journal-World has reported, Moran, R-Kansas, sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in late April highlighting an urgent need for change in ...
A new mural unveiled by artists with arts-based nonprofit Van Go Thursday is a bit different from the projects they typically complete each spring — it’s not going to be installed on a wall but on a vehicle. Titled “Regenerations,” the mural will be printed on vinyl and wrapped around one of the Senior Resource Center’s accessible vans. Along with portraits of smiling senior citizens, the artwork ...
You don’t have to look too far away from the last home Studio 804 built on Indiana Street to find its newest project — in fact, it’s located right next door. The Pinkney neighborhood has seen multiple projects from the KU architecture capstone course pop up since 2022, with the first of now three homes located just down the block. With the two newest homes quite literally next door neighbors, it’s no ...