L.A. homeless sites ‘overwhelmed’ by COVID-19: ‘These are the toughest times’
3 years, 11 months ago

L.A. homeless sites ‘overwhelmed’ by COVID-19: ‘These are the toughest times’

LA Times  

A tent at Union Rescue Mission became an impromptu triage center as Housing for Health struggled to respond to a sudden surge in the spread of COVID-19 cases through the homeless shelter system. “We moved our men inside to 2nd floor and handed over keys last Sunday.” The tent at Union Rescue Mission became an impromptu triage center as Housing for Health struggled to respond to a sudden surge in the spread of the disease through the homeless shelter system. “We have been using that way only since this weekend.” Housing for Health, a Department of Health Services program that provides housing for medically vulnerable homeless people, runs the county’s coronavirus isolation and quarantine system. “Staffing has been one of the biggest challenges throughout COVID, not just in Housing for Health, across homeless services sector and healthcare and hospital field,” Todoroff said.

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As shelters fill, NYC weighs tents to house migrants
2 years, 3 months ago

As shelters fill, NYC weighs tents to house migrants

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — New York City’s mayor says he plans to erect hangar-sized tents as temporary shelter for thousands of international migrants who have been bused into the Big Apple as part of a campaign by Republican governors to disrupt federal border policies. New York City’s huge system of homeless shelters has been straining to accommodate the unexpected new flow …

COVID-19 got this medical team into homeless camps. What about after the pandemic?
3 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19 got this medical team into homeless camps. What about after the pandemic?

LA Times  

Inside the white van parked in the concrete bed of La Canada Verde Creek, Wendy Ruvalcaba rooted in her bag for her phone as it chimed. Dr. Absalon Galat of the L.A. County Department of Health Services street medicine team drives a van on the concrete bed of La Canada Verde Creek during a visit to homeless encampments. “That makes …

Tracking the L.A. homeless coronavirus protection effort
3 years, 4 months ago

Tracking the L.A. homeless coronavirus protection effort

LA Times  

The Times is tracking the latest data from the operation, which is known as Project Roomkey. As an initial surge of leases with hotel owners tapered off, it quickly became clear the program would fall well short of its goal and make no more than a small dent in the roughly 48,000 people estimated to be living on the county’s …

L.A. wanted the Venice homeless shelter open at full capacity. Now it has a COVID outbreak
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. wanted the Venice homeless shelter open at full capacity. Now it has a COVID outbreak

LA Times  

At a city-funded homeless shelter in Venice, 37 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks — the largest current outbreak in a homeless facility in Los Angeles. “There was a strong recommendation from the city that we ‘recompress,’” said Jennifer Hark-Dietz, deputy chief executive officer and executive director of PATH, a statewide homeless housing and services agency, …

COVID-19 job losses will worsen L.A. homelessness by 2023, new report says
3 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 job losses will worsen L.A. homelessness by 2023, new report says

LA Times  

Parts of downtown Los Angeles are looking ragged nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Massive job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic nationwide will leave tens of thousands of low-wage workers without homes over the next three years, a report published Tuesday by a Los Angeles-based research group forecasts. Los Angeles County, already struggling with one of the nation’s largest …

Editorial: COVID is surging among homeless people. L.A. needs to do something about it.
3 years, 11 months ago

Editorial: COVID is surging among homeless people. L.A. needs to do something about it.

LA Times  

Los Angeles Police Sgt. For months during the pandemic, homeless people in Los Angeles seemed less susceptible to contracting COVID-19 — a combination of being spurned by others and living by themselves in tents on sidewalks. It also helped that the city and county provided up to 4,000 motel and hotel beds to particularly vulnerable homeless people through a program …

In Pandemic America's Tent Cities, a Grim Future Grows Darker as Funding on Verge of Drying up
4 years ago

In Pandemic America's Tent Cities, a Grim Future Grows Darker as Funding on Verge of Drying up

News 18  

Nadeen Bender stood outside her home, a tattered two-man tent, surrounded by the re-purposed Amazon Prime boxes she uses to store her life’s belongings. To deal with an exploding homeless population and encourage social distancing during the pandemic, Marcipoa County officials turned this pair of asphalt-topped parking lots into the area’s newest homeless shelter. “It’s not just the pandemic, it’s …

Have L.A.’s homeless people dodged a COVID-19 catastrophe?
4 years, 4 months ago

Have L.A.’s homeless people dodged a COVID-19 catastrophe?

LA Times  

When the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, advocates predicted that a “time bomb” was about to go off in the homeless community. But most of those infected had no symptoms: In Boston, where every shelter resident was tested, the asymptomatic rate was 70% to 90%, said Dr. James O’Connell, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and president of Boston Health Care for …

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