Future uncertain for some kicked out of Wichita homeless camp

McClatchy - Wichita Eagle
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Oct 14, 2026
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AI GeneratedA person describes the distress of losing their camp and belongings due to restricted vehicle access and the difficulty of moving items manually. They express frustration over the inadequacy of housing vouchers and plead for an end to the social stigma and misconceptions regarding their lifestyle and work ethic.
My entire camp is still down there pretty much.
How are you going to get that stuff?
I don't know.
I'm actually borrowing somebody's bike,
so I have really no way of getting anything out unless people help me.
And they're not allowing us to take vehicles back there now,
so I don't know how I'm going to get any of it out now.
It's a disaster. It's not fair.
Yes, they may have given us a week, but we didn't have a week
because moving our stuff with trailers and a bike is exhausting.
And there's stickers everywhere throughout here,
so the tires get popped.
And it's very hard
to get anything moved.
A lot of people have vouchers, half the people down here have vouchers.
There's no houses, they can't get into a house.
So, I mean, a voucher, yeah, we can give us a voucher, but
that doesn't mean it's not a guaranteed house.
Stop judging us by, I don't know,
just stop judging us cuz we're not bad people.
We really just wanna be left alone.
We're not hurting people.
We're just trying, no, we don't live in a house, but we do.
We build our own houses.
Like we, everybody says we're lazy, but we're not.
There's a lot of work that goes into our camps.
Like every day we have to get up and maintain everything.
And we are far from lazy.
