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For more than 30 years, volunteers have conducted the Minnesota Homeless Study led by Wilder Research, which has given the most in-depth look available at homelessness across our state. Due to the pandemic, the last time the study was conducted was five years ago.
For the first time since 2005, the county tallied the fewest number of people experiencing homelessness during this year's annual one-day census.
Ramsey County housing officials are making plans to close a homeless shelter, with 101 mostly-senior residents, at the end of November as federal COVID-19 relief dollars are beginning to run out.
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 individ...