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Stephen Koranda, Kansas News Service photo by: Stephen Koranda/Kansas News Service Federal money recently helped pay for COVID-19 testing in downtown Lawrence. In northern Lawrence, the city set up 20 white and gray tents in a park to house people who are homeless. It’s not health care or COVID-19 tests, but federal coronavirus tax dollars are paying for the camp. “If we put our homeless population into the shelter, there’s a higher chance that they’ll get the virus and then they’ll spread it across the community,” Douglas County Commission Chair Patrick Kelly said. The camp marks but one example of the creative ways communities are using the federal money. They scrambled to spend the cash before a deadline at the end of December, but Congress is now giving them more time. Restrictions also mean that money can’t go to some of the top priorities in local budgets. ....
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Originally published on December 22, 2020 5:51 am LAWRENCE, Kansas In north Lawrence, the city set up 20 white-and-gray tents in a park to house people who are homeless. It’s not health care, or COVID-19 tests, but federal coronavirus tax dollars are paying for the camp. “If we put our homeless population into the shelter, there’s a higher chance that they’ll get the virus and then they’ll spread it across the community,” Douglas County Commissioner Patrick Kelly said. The camp marks but one example of the creative ways communities are using the federal money. They scrambled to spend the cash before a deadline at the end of December, but Congress is now giving them more time. Restrictions also mean that money can’t go to some of the top priorities in local budgets. ....