by BFTS | Jul 2, 2020 | National News
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...
by BFTS | Jul 1, 2020 | National News
By 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 initiatives the state has...
by BFTS | Jun 30, 2020 | National News
Domestic Workers Now Facing Homelessness Survey 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 explained the...
by BFTS | Jun 29, 2020 | National News
From 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 other big states spend...
by BFTS | Jun 28, 2020 | Insight, National News
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...
by BFTS | Jun 28, 2020 | National News
High-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 during the...
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