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We saved lives : How isolating Minnesota s homeless kept them safe from COVID-19 Chris Serres, Star Tribune
Douglas Pyle lives in a tiny room. He has a bed barely large enough for his broad frame, and a desk where his television sits next to a potted plant and a pile of face masks. He can walk the width of the room with just two paces.
It s not much, but it s far more than what Pyle had a year ago, when he drifted the streets looking for a quick high, spending every dollar he earned as a cook at a downtown Minneapolis restaurant to buy opioid pills to ease his anxiety and depression.
Federal aid divides homeless in the Twin Cities
The Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis have faced an alarming rise in homelessness during the pandemic, but there’s nothing similar in how they’ve confronted the crisis.
By Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
ST. PAUL, Minnesota In two rooms in separate cities, people say their names. Around a circle of chairs and tables, they gather weekly to strategize leaving the streets behind. All have been homeless before or are living on the brink.
The conversation is more urgent, as a pandemic winter sets in. And frustration is building with public leaders who they feel have not done enough to help.
In a Tumultuous Year, COVID Puts Homeless Crisis Front and Center
From summer to fall 2020, a homeless encampment was based near the Lake Harriet bandshell. We went inside the homeless encampment, where a cityâs growing housing crisis took on faces and names.
The Lake Harriet homeless encampment
The Lake Harriet homeless encampment, photographed in late September, is across the street from the Lake Harriet Bandshell and overlooks the lake.
Editorâs Note: Some of the homeless persons in this article agreed to speak with only limited attribution. Others are highly vulnerable individuals. As a result, the editors decided to identify all only by their first names.