Who has it harder than homeless people when the pandemic closes indoor spaces?
4 years, 1 month ago

Who has it harder than homeless people when the pandemic closes indoor spaces?

LA Times  

I have a roof over my head. This past week, I set out to check up on people living on the streets of my Hollywood neighborhood because I couldn’t stop thinking about the extent of that privilege. Tom Ponzo, 51, camping on a side street just north of Hollywood Boulevard, said nearby restaurants that are still open won’t let homeless people come inside to use their facilities. But the already sizable number of people living on my neighborhood’s streets before the pandemic appears to my eye to have been growing steadily. They see us out here every day and they think, ‘they’re making it, they know what to do.’ A lot of people, they didn’t have hearts like that before,” she said.

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Report shows US homelessness rising even before pandemic
3 years, 9 months ago

Report shows US homelessness rising even before pandemic

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Homelessness in America was on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic dramatically dragged down the economy, according to a government report. The Housing and Urban Development Department’s annual report on homelessness provides a snapshot of the number of homeless people, both sheltered and unsheltered, in America on a single night. The one-night counts are conducted during the …

The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 on Homelessness in the US
3 years, 11 months ago

The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 on Homelessness in the US

Wired  

Dave "Dogdave" Hirschman, a 53-year-old man who has been experiencing homelessness since 1984, is starting to lose hope. “It was successful at two things: preventing large numbers of homeless individuals and families from actually contracting Covid, and moving people inside at very high rates.” Compared to last spring, when it seemed that all the Covid-19 pandemic would bring to America’s …

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 …

The Pandemic Presents The Chance To End Homelessness In Canada For Good
4 years, 6 months ago

The Pandemic Presents The Chance To End Homelessness In Canada For Good

Huff Post  

This story is part of After The Curve, an ongoing HuffPost Canada series that makes sense of how the COVID-19 crisis could change our country in the months and years ahead, and what opportunities exist to make Canada better. “That’s one of the things that these emergency measures have proven — that we can act rapidly and move people into …

An unexpected side effect of the coronavirus? A new urgency about helping homeless people
4 years, 9 months ago

An unexpected side effect of the coronavirus? A new urgency about helping homeless people

LA Times  

Alan lives on the street and sometimes struggles to hold a cup or bottle of water. “I see one scenario where this virus mercifully dodges the homeless population or another scenario where it hits the homeless population quite hard,” said Randall Kuhn, a professor at UCLA’s department of community health sciences. But by securing motels and deploying trailers, Newsom said …

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