by BFTS | Mar 1, 2021 | Global News
The City of Toronto says COVID-19 vaccines will start to be administered to those experiencing homelessness in the City’s shelter system this week. In a news release issued Sunday, local officials said the province confirmed this weekend that those experiencing... 
by BFTS | Feb 13, 2021 | News
Advocates for homeless people in New York City sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Friday over a series of Covid-19 rules that the suit says unfairly target people who shelter in the city’s subways. The rules prohibit people from staying in a... 
by BFTS | Feb 3, 2021 | News
As the snow began to pile up Monday night, Jim Greene set out to bring a sleeping bag to a Boston man spending the night on the street. “I wish we could convince him to come in, but he just refuses,” said Greene, director of the Boston Public Health... 
by BFTS | Jan 29, 2021 | National Insight
But more cities are carefully tracking these populations — and making progress in addressing the problem. Many Americans imagine that the homeless are mostly people who made bad choices. They imagine the homeless are mostly single men. They imagine the... 
by BFTS | Jan 27, 2021 | National Insight
My personal quest for equal rights now informs my push for a revamped public health approach to homelessness. “I never met a Kentuckian who wasn’t either thinking about going home or actually going home.”- Kentucky Senator A.B...
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