In Denver Sweeps Of Homeless Camps Run Counter To COVID Guidance And Pile On Health Risks
Melody Lewis lives like a nomad in the heart of downtown. Poking her head out of her green tent on a recent June day, the 57-year-old pointed a few blocks away to the place where city crews picked up her tent from a sidewalk median earlier this spring and replaced it...
We Take Homelessness for Granted. The Pandemic Should Change That.
he problem is not that there is no money, but that the decisions have already been made not to spend it on homelessness and the injustices that create and perpetuate it. When San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued the nation’s first...
Connecticut State Will Place 1,800 Homeless in Apartments, Considers Buying Hotels
y September, Connecticut will move roughly 1,800 homeless people now living into hotels and shelters into apartments and homes in order to protect them from the coronavirus. The $14 million campaign is one of the biggest emergency housing...
Domestic Workers Now Facing Homelessness
Domestic Workers Now Facing Homelessness urvey finds workers struggling without access to social safety net In a survey conducted at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, black immigrant domestic workers in Boston and other cities...
Here’s How NYC Plans to Keep New Yorkers Cool This Summer
Spacious cooling centers, misting oases, open hydrants, and more he days of a refreshing plunge in a public pool or a cold beer at a baseball game won’t be happening anytime soon in New York City. But while many of the summer...
Pandemic Exacerbates Challenges of Homelessness
Pandemic Exacerbates Challenges of Homelessness t’s one thing to “shelter in place” when you have a place to go. It’s quite another thing to be homeless, like many families and children in Ulster County, and have no space of...
California Prisons Are COVID Hotbeds Despite Billions Spent On Inmate Health
rom Corcoran and Avenal state prisons in the arid Central Valley to historical San Quentin on the San Francisco Bay, California prisons have emerged as raging COVID-19 hot spots, even as the state annually spends more on inmate health care than...
Angels of Skid Row: A Mom Turned the Tragedy of Her Son’s Death Into a Lifeline for the Homeless
Raines is behind Beauty 2 The Streetz, a nonprofit that has supported Skid Row's homeless community for the last three years and is now helping them combat coronavirus It's an early Saturday morning in May and a line of nearly a hundred...
After Months of Complaints, Cupertino Homeless Camp to Get a Bathroom
The decision signals an about-face by the city CUPERTINO — After a handful of homeless residents have spent months in camps along Wolfe Road without bathrooms or running water in the midst of a pandemic, city officials said they’re taking steps...
Hotel Rooms Help Fairfax County Homeless During Pandemic
igh-risk persons and those who've tested positive for the coronavirus can stay in hotel rooms while receiving homeless services. FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA — For vulnerable persons experiencing homelessness, self-isolation or self-quarantining...
