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Since Kentucky criminalized street camping, citations average more than one per day - mostly in Louisville and Lexington.
Current Kentucky regulations make it harder for affordable housing to be built, making the Louisville homelessness crisis even worse. Louisville's homelessness crisis is out of control, Kentucky's ...
A new study suggests a proposed two-year time limit on federal housing subsidies could affect as many as 1.4 million ...
“This is a crisis,” Johnson said. It’s a crisis all right. In Lexington. In Harlan. And in each of our 120 counties across the state. Last year, 21,486 Kentucky children were counted as ...
Despite the bitter cold on Wednesday, a group went out to "count" the homeless in Northern Kentucky, but figuring out the exact number of children experiencing homelessness is tricky.
Being a homeless teenager – or a teen on the edge of homelessness – has never been easy. The COVID-19 crisis is making it tougher than ever.
In Kentucky, the rate is just as alarming: more than 4,000 Kentuckians will experience homelessness, according to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. No community has been spared.
The Safer Kentucky Act would rewrite much of the state’s criminal code, including allowing police to fine and arrest homeless people for what it calls ‘unlawful camping.’. Democrats backed a ...
Kentucky's legislature passed a ban on street camping, a measure opponents say criminalizes homelessness. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case that could affect the fate of such bans.
More than a thousand people are experiencing homelessness in Northern Kentucky. The Northern Kentucky Homelessness Working Group collected data for 11 months before releasing a report this week.
Kentucky Republicans filed House Bill 5, Safer Kentucky Act, ... “With these laws, you’re putting law enforcement on the front lines of the homeless crisis, ...
The people have spoken: The Louisville homelessness crisis is out of control, and many voters think it’s time the local government adopted a new approach to stop it. A recent poll found that ...