Photos for June 24, 2009

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A homeless man sleeps outside the Replay Lounge the morning of June 19. Since the Salvation Army ceased providing emergency shelter to the city's homeless in April, the Lawrence Community Shelter has been housing 73 men and women each night, vastly exceeding its normal limit of 31, which itself is technically over capacity for the facility. While city administrators try to find a way to fund a solution, downtown merchants are complaining that the increased number of panhandlers on Mass Street are hurting customer sales.

Published on June 24, 2009

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