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Minneapolis clears homeless encampments

By: Deena Winter - Tuesday October 5, 2021

A homeless camp near Cedar and Franklin avenues in Minneapolis was cleared out by the city and state Tuesday morning.

Class action lawsuit seeks end to police sweeps of Minneapolis homeless encampments

By: Tony Webster - Monday October 19, 2020

A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Monday against the City of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, local officials and law enforcement on behalf of seven people who currently or formerly lived in homeless encampments in Minneapolis public parks. The lawsuit, filed by the ACLU of Minnesota and Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, follows repeated police sweeps of homeless […]

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When considering park encampments, consider the neighborhood and its people, too

By: Dwight Hobbes - Sunday October 11, 2020

As with Powderhorn Park and others around Minneapolis, the encampment at Peavey Park was portrayed as a “sanctuary” for the homeless, and there was some hoopla when the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board evicted some tents out of the park recently. park police and bulldozers at peavey currently, eviction attempt has began. get to the […]

Half of people living in Powderhorn encampments are Native

By: Max Nesterak - Monday July 13, 2020

More than 500 tents are spread across two encampments in Powderhorn Park, but the number of people living there according to a recent survey of its residents is far fewer: 282. The encampments have swelled in Powderhorn Park and in other parks across Minneapolis since the Park Board approved a resolution on June 17 declaring […]

Powderhorn Park neighborhood residents want a solution to homeless encampments by Friday

By: Hannah Black - Wednesday June 17, 2020

Tresa Kier is one of about 100 people who have moved into a homeless encampment in Powderhorn Park after officials shut down a nearby former Sheraton hotel, which volunteers had turned into a shelter. For now, Kier is content sleeping in her small, one-person tent in the park. She said she’s looking forward to getting a […]

State Senator says campgrounds should reopen because there are homeless encampments

By: Max Nesterak - Wednesday May 6, 2020

State Senator Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, deleted a tweet Tuesday featuring a video of him standing in front of tents pitched along a busy street in St. Paul to make the argument for Gov. Tim Walz to reopen campgrounds. “As you can see behind me, we’ve got a nice little tent city set up here,” […]

Governor says homeless encampments may be cleared, against CDC guidance

By: Max Nesterak - Friday May 1, 2020

When Metro Transit shut down overnight train and bus service in March because of COVID-19, Andre Adams lost his shelter. “We went to a park until we got put out of there. We went to a parking ramp until we got put out of there,” Adams said. “They are putting everybody out of every place.” […]

High mortality rate of homeless highlighted in new report

By: Casey Quinlan - Friday April 14, 2023

Barb Anderson, director of Haven House in Jeffersonville, Indiana, works with homeless people to place them into housing. It’s a job that has shown her firsthand the severe health issues facing unhoused people in southern Indiana, where many people live in tents in the woods and under bridges. She is currently working with an older […]

30 homeless women evacuated from encampment to hotels

By: Deena Winter - Thursday November 4, 2021

The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center was awarded a $400,000 contract to house 30 homeless, single, Native women who were moved out of two encampments near Cedar and Franklin avenues in early October.

Indigenous leaders alarmed at chaos of growing Franklin Street encampment

By: Deena Winter - Wednesday September 8, 2021

As cars whizzed by on Franklin Avenue, Jasmine Davis, 34, stood inches away from their tires Tuesday morning, picking up discarded, ketchup-smeared Styrofoam takeout boxes, empty Marlboro cartons, an orange Crush can and a donut with barely a bite missing. Davis wore latex gloves and a blue Bryn Mawr jersey, but wasn’t one of the […]

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