Earlier this year, The Star reported that while awaiting the arrival of the world for the FIFA World Cup soccer games coming this summer, Kansas City has seen its population of people experiencing homelessness explode.
Many of the people experiencing this misfortune are living on the city’s streets in doorways and under highways. In some cases, these Kansas Citians “raise dangerous encampments in the woods along the railroad and Missouri River,” Star reporter Eric Adler wrote.
You can’t travel through this city without noticing that the number of people sleeping in tents, pushing all their belongings in a metal cart or propped against a wall as a breaker from wind and cold is significant…