By Mark | January 4, 2014
With yet another huge winter storm system headed our way, and temperatures expected to reach well below 0 °F by the end of this weekend, I reached out to several people who work with Washtenaw County’s homeless population, asking a relatively simple question…. “Do we have warming center capacity in the Ypsi-Arbor area sufficient to […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Health, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Camp Misfit, Cold, Community Support and Treatment Services, CSTS, Delonis Center, Ellen Schulmeister, frostbite, Greg Pratt, homeless, homeless encampments, homelessness, hypothermia, mental illness, Mercy House, PATH, PORT, Project Outreach Team, Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, public health, public health emergency, Ryan Sample, Shelter Association of Washtenaw County, Sheri Wander, warming center |
By Mark | February 13, 2012
I just received a note from a U.S. expatriate living in France, asking me to confirm whether or not what he’d heard today on the BBC about a homeless encampment on the outskirts of Ann Arbor was indeed true… Sadly, I had to tell him that Camp Take Notice was in fact real. Here’s a […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan | Also tagged Alana Gehringer, BBC, black mould, Brian Calley, Brian Durance, Bush tax cuts, homeless encampments, homelessness, hunger in America, rats, Reagan M. Sova, tent cities |
By Mark | September 3, 2009
Until today, when I read about the police shutting it down, I was unaware of the tent city behind Arborland Mall known as Camp Take Notice. Apparently the big crackdown by authorities came on Wednesday, when Caleb Poirier, the leader of the camp, which is said to have between 30 and 60 inhabitants, was arrested […]