Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is pictured on May 3, 2016.
With more than 100 homeless people currently living outside, city leaders have voted to create a temporary winter shelter program that uses hotels, and they’ve also approved additional funding to allow the program to house more people than initially proposed.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to approve a city-led program that will use hotel rooms to provide shelter to homeless people over the next 90 days. Under the initial proposal for the program, however, dozens of people would still have been left unsheltered, so the commission also voted to allocate an additional $50,000 to the program so that it could help more people.