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Published February 01, 2010, 12:00 AM

Photo Gallery: Duluth's homeless


Deb Holman, a street outreach worker for CHUM and the Human Development Center, convinces Benny Taylor to spend a night at CHUM and then meet with the people at the San Marco building to help find him a room there. Holmen found Taylor on Thursday in the Skywalk system with nowhere to go. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)

  • Deb Holman, a street outreach worker for CHUM and the Human Development Center, convinces Benny Taylor to spend a night at CHUM and then meet with the people at the San Marco building to help find him a room there. Holmen found Taylor on Thursday in the Skywalk system with nowhere to go. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • William Roberts, who was having dinner at the Union Gospel Mission last week, greets Deb Holman, who was there checking up on people. Roberts said he has a place to stay. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Outreach worker Deb Holman (right) checks in with Kyle Itkonen (left), 22, who has been homeless in the past but now stays at the Seaway Hotel. At center is his friend Jason Ellerby. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Deb Holman, outreach worker for CHUM, stops to talk with a homeless man who was walking the Skywalk recently. She asked if he had a place to stay and if he needed anything. The man is typically reticent but this time he opened up to her. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Deb Holman, outreach worker for CHUM, checks a landing on a stairwell leading to the Northwest Passage Skywalk during a routine look around the Skywalk system and the downtown area for homeless people holing up for the night. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Jeremy Baumgart of Duluth stands under the elevated portion of I-35 in the graffitti graveyard near the area where he often would sleep when he was homeless. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
  • Bob (last name not available) talks about the winter he lived in this semi-enclosed space near the Incline Station. The blanket and foam pad hanging over the pipe may indicate that the space is still used as a shelter. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Dan Peterson (right), supervisor of the 2010 Unsheltered Count, stops to check in on David Hopkins during dinner at the Union Gospel Mission recently as part of the annual survey. Hopkins is currently homeless. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com
  • Lisa Runnquist, who was homeless in Duluth most of her life, now lives in the San Marco. Behind her is a portrait of a Native American warrior done by her boyfriend. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com
  • San Marco resident assistant Brittany Bennett talks with resident Lisa Runnquist in her room Tuesday evening. Runnquist was homeless before moving into the San Marco. "She's like a sister," Ronnquist said of Bennett. "I talk to Britt because I trust her." Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com
  • Steve Fullerton a resident of the San Marco Apartments would purposely get drunk when he was homeless to find shelter at the Duluth Center for Alcohol & Drug Treatment on nights that it was too cold to sleep outside. The center averages about 2,500 admissions a year. Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com
  • Zach Oie, 18, chooses to be homeless. He often sleeps in this tunnel in the Endion neighborhood of Duluth with his dog, Happy Meal. Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com
  • Bob, who wouldn't allow use of his last name, ducks to enter a semi-enclosed space below First Street, next to the Incline Station parking lot. Bob lived in the space last winter. Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com
  • Bobm who wouldn't allow use of his last name, sits in the semi-enclosed space next to the Inclined Station parking lot where he lived last winter. Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com