‘It doesn’t help us’: Homeless Wichitans on what is lost after a camp sweep

When JD left his campsite for his cousin’s funeral at 10:30 on a summer morning, he did not expect to return hours later only to find another loss to grieve.

All of his belongings — enough, he said, to furnish a studio apartment — were gone.

“I had a tent. My clothes. I had a little motorcycle that my brother had left me before he died,” JD said. Neighbors and their items disappeared, too. “Everything.”…

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