​Where Do People Come When Kentucky Bans Homeless Camps?

Angel Sivado attempts to convert people from the roads to everlasting cover. Helping her customers becomes more of a problem thanks to a new law. There are many way to know a city — its entrance porches, its franchises, its tourist traps — but Angel Sivado knows Louisville, Ky., by way of its poor camps. Every gasoline station with a tent hidden behind its dumpster and every overpass where someone can sleep on a stretched piece of cardboard is familiar. She knows the signs unknown to another: clearings in the trees behind a band store, abandoned shopping carts, dust rising from fire. Every day at 7: 45, Sivado, 51, an referral contractor for a poor service organization called St. John Center, drives from one poor tent to the next. She carries slow and Pringles, Narcan and fresh socks. Some of Louisville’s poor people use her company as their residence address. They confide in Sivado, who greets people with her words like syrup:” Hi, buddy” !On a thick day in July, Sivado visited one of her customers, Jessica Miller. Miller has been working on an app for a cover card since the beginning of this year, but at the moment she lives in a torn peach tent behind a Thorntons comfort business trash. After she contracted fever, one of her legs was amputated, and another homeless person took her robotic. When Louisville’s homeless population was last recorded in 2024, it was more than 300 percent higher than before the pandemic, and she uses a wheelchair and a cardboard sign that reads,” Homeless anything helps, thank you &lt, 3.” Funds… Jon Cherry for The New York TimesMiller, who is 42, said she fled an abusive marriage more than six years ago and found herself poor. When Louisville next recorded its poor people in 2024, a more than 300 percent increase from the pandemic, she is one of almost 600 people who were either unemployed or residing elsewhere. We are having difficulty locating the article’s source. Please make Browser available in your browser’s settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify exposure. If you are in Audience mode please leave and log into your Times accounts, or listen for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify exposure. Presently a customer? Register in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.