While Minneapolis mayoral candidates debated under stage lights how best to address unsheltered homelessness last month, Misty sat cross-legged outside a bakery on 17th and Lake Street. It was getting chillier as the sun set, so she wore her hood up.
In that spot, tucked away from the constant flow of traffic on the main road, she held a cardboard sign: “lost everything after encampment shooting. Anything helps.”
Misty was among the dozens of people who had been living at the encampment on real estate developer Hamoudi Sabri’s private lot — the one that is now at the center of an ongoing legal dispute between the city and Sabri…