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.