In the coldest month of 2018, a massive encampment with children in tents shocked the system.

Hundreds of people including young children called the Franklin-Hiawatha homeless encampment home. It was called the Wall of Forgotten Natives .

Officials quickly built a temporary navigation center to bring people inside. That was seven years ago.

Today, tents continue to pop up. Just this week, two separate mass shootings sent many to the hospital.

Steve Horsfield with Simpson Housing Services operated the center and says over 100 people eventually found housing in a seven-month span in 2018.

"We were able to see positive outcomes in terms of housing placements," Horsfield said.

The estimated cost: nearly $3 million with the city helping fund majority of the funds.

Many partne

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