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City starts litter, tent cleanup at Westport homeless camp
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Homeless camp tents return to Westport area
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â People experiencing homelessness began setting up tents near Westport on Friday.
A 41 Action News photographer drove by the area and spotted about 14 tents.
In March, people began to
The tents were meant to be a constant reminder to city officials of the struggles people experiencing homelessness face.
In early April, people experiencing homelessness
number of efforts to try to address homelessness in the city.
Mayor Q Claims Kansas City Homeless Program Success As Camps Return To Westport
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Homelessness crisis rises across the US Midwest
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released its 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) on March 18. Also called the Point-in-Time (PIT) report, the AHAR graphs changes in the numbers of sheltered and unsheltered homeless people from year to year. The PIT report concluded that nationally, homelessness had increased even before the economic impact of the pandemic. 580,466 people were homeless on a single night in January 2020 an increase of 2.2 percent from 2019. Homelessness has increased for the previous four years.
The economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have already resulted in a sharp increase in homelessness in the Midwest. A larger crisis looms when the federal eviction moratorium, extended again on March 29 through June 30, is allowed to expire. The federal eviction moratorium has never included rent forgiveness for tenants, meaning that thousands of dollars of debt are accumulating that cann
People experiencing homelessness await forced removal at City Hall, Westport camps
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) Organizers, advocates, and people staying at two homeless encampments in Kansas City are waiting for the city’s next step in deciding the future of the sites.
City officials ordered people to leave the camps in Westport and outside of KC City Hall before Monday because of public health and safety issues, but people have not left.
Luke Lindsey, a KC native, has been staying at the Westport encampment, Camp 6ixx, since February. He says he’s felt safe during his longest homeless situation; Lindsey is used to sleeping on concrete or in unsafe areas.
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