For many years, Zanoli has used the two rooming houses to help the underserved population of Las Vegas: All the guests were ex-homeless people who were part of programs at various charities, and most of them were senior citizens, veterans, and minorities. The residents could enjoy the privacy...
Las Vegas and Clark County officials opened the temporary sleeping area to some of the city's homeless population on March 28 to help stop the spread of the coronavirus at a local shelter. The shelter had been forced to close for cleaning after someone there tested positive for the virus....
Fortunes are won and lost in Las Vegas all the time. But the city itself has been on the losing end of the foreclosure crisis. The city's homeless population has grown from nearly 12,000 two years ago to nearly 14,000 today. Yet there are fewer than 1,000 beds in shelters, forcing ...
Las Vegas stacks the deck against homeless populationKathleen Hennessey
The U.S. homeless population rose to more than 771,000 on a single night counted in late January 2024, according to the latest release of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’sAnnual Homelessness Assessment Report. The number equates to an 18% increase over 2023’s...
In response to the criticism, a Las Vegas spokesperson told CBS News that "the city of Las Vegas, Clark County and our partners are working to ensure that the homeless population has a safe place to go where they are able to social distance." ...
The U.S. homeless population rose to more than 771,000 on a single night counted in late January 2024, according to the latest release of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’sAnnual Homelessness Assessment Report. The number equates to an 18% increase over 2023’s total...
Las Vegas’ population boom has contributed to rising housing costs. The market rent for southern Nevada rose 20% from 2022 to 2023, according to a Clark Countyhomelessness report— higher than thenational average. As more people get displaced, more retreat underground. And often, out...
Las Vegas stacks the deck against homeless population Just beyond Las Vegas's neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year t... K Hennessey 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Daily heat and mortality among people expe...
unhoused people, but the magnitude was staggering,” Jay said. “Our estimates are 10 to 100 times greater than the known associations between daily heat and mortality for the general population in LA and Las Vegas, and this finding highlights the moral imperative for our systems to do more....