Stefania Lugli/The Journal
Stefania Lugli is a reporter for The Journal, published by the Kansas Leadership Center. She focuses on covering issues related to homelessness in Wichita and across Kansas. Her stories are shared widely through the Wichita Journalism Collaborative. She can be reached via email slugli@kansasleadershipcenter.org
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The council voted unanimously Tuesday to create the City of Wichita ID to lower barriers for the homeless to access resources. -
The Multi Agency Center Board Inc. will take over operations of the current emergency winter shelter on April 1, the first step in establishing the multi-agency center. -
The Council voted 4-3 Tuesday to allow more city employees the ability to clean up encampments, but relented on a couple of matters after fierce public opposition. -
The local ordinance currently prohibiting law enforcement from removing a camp when shelter beds are not available may soon be changed. -
The Wichita City Council voted 7-0 Tuesday to approve HumanKind Ministries as its winter shelter operator through March 31. The shelter’s reopening comes at a time of increased housing instability in Wichita, as evidenced by a housing voucher waitlist 10,000 households long. -
Jeff Blubaugh defeats incumbent Sarah Lopez to represent District 2, while Stephanie Wise fends off Celeste Racette to take over David Dennis' seat for District 3. -
The city produced, funded and provided edits on a documentary with a local marketing firm to show the ecosystem of homelessness care. -
As the 2024 calendar turned to autumn, 46 homeless people had died in Sedgwick County. The anecdotal tally for all of 2023 was just 42. -
Alleviating homelessness by making the housing of an individual the first step is federally sanctioned and backed by data from places as varied as Rockford, Illinois, and Abilene, Texas. But some Kansas legislators are skeptical of investing in housing homeless individuals without asking them to make other changes to their lives. -
Wichita’s emergency winter shelter aims to open around Thanksgiving. This will be the first project of three for a fully developed multi-agency center.
