On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Abdul-Raqeeb Uqdah strapped on a backpack and crossed the old railroad trestle into Tent City, the colloquial term for Allentown’s long-established homeless encampment in the woods of Little Lehigh Parkway. “Knock knock,...
Homelessness advocates are concerned about the increase of homeless deaths since the pandemic took hold of Orange County. According to data from the coroner’s office, 146 homeless people died between April and August. During the same period last year, there were 82...
No new site has been chosen after neighborhood pushback scuttled plan The Denver Coliseum parking lot is no longer under consideration for the city’s first sanctioned homeless encampment, and no other site has been seriously proposed in its place yet, officials say....
Data shows Miami’s homeless population has only a 3 percent positivity rate for the coronavirus compared to 15 percent for everyone else. MIAMI, FL — It was just a few days after Easter and Passover when Ronald L. Book got a call on a Saturday morning...
Just as the pandemic has changed almost every aspect of daily life, it has also reshaped homelessness in Indianapolis. Like most of us, Carolyn Bolin found out about the COVID-19 pandemic on the news. She was shocked as she watched the public health...
Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday called the recent removal of a large homeless encampment near the state Capitol “a relief.” “I was deeply troubled by the dangerous health situation in that area,” Polis said during a news conference, noting a recent shooting...
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