‘They mattered’: Unhoused people missing, items lost from encampments near river after Milwaukee flooding

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — More than a dozen unhoused people have made their homes under a bridge next to the Kinnikinnic River.

After historic flooding, outreach volunteers tell us many people there lost everything, and some lost their lives.

“In all the years that I’ve been down here, I’ve never seen nothing like that. Never,” said Chris Lovejoy, who has lived under the bridge near 1st Street and South Chase Avenue in Bay View for nearly five years…

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