when police officers began retiring and quitting en masse, in some cases to avoid COVID vaccine requirements. However, the new hires will not come close to meeting Seattle’s (already scaled-back) version of the nationwide 30 by 30 initiative, which calls ...
“It started ever since the COVID, people losing their jobs, losing their houses, losing their apartments, losing everything,” he said. “And this is where they end up.” Sometimes, numbers can’t explain what a city is doing. The city of Los Angeles said its sanitation department res...
The number of homeless people has spiked since the COVID-19 pandemic, but city efforts to crack down on camping, loitering and panhandling predate the public health crisis. Between 2006 and 2019, there was a sharp increase in the number of citywide bans on camping (up 92%), sitting or l...
Too often, this sets people up for unreasonable expectations of themselves, co-workers, and their clients. AsJenn Adams, who works with vehicle residency outreach programs, told me, it takes years of support and eventherapyto gain perspective on one’s own experience of homelessness. She ...
I returned to Sacramento more recently amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the tent cities in the woods along the rivers stretched as far as the eye could see, rivaling those photographed by Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression. The most recent federally mandated survey foundmore ...
Project RoomKey originated during the COVID-19 crisis as an effort to prevent the spread of the virus among LA’s homeless population by utilizing vacant motel rooms. The project benefitted motel owners by allowing them to make up for lost revenue due to the pandemic by temporarily housing ho...
But, she said, they were the right choice for The Melody because they were relatively inexpensive and already had handicap-accessible bathrooms since many were used by Georgia hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, which took only about four months to complete, cost about $12...
Nestled between tennis courts, a library and rows of mostly single-family homes, La Halte du Coin was established as an emergency resource at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The provisional facility has no showers and just one toilet. “There are issues of dignity,” shelter...
Nestled between tennis courts, a library and rows of mostly single-family homes, La Halte du Coin was established as an emergency resource at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The provisional facility has no showers and just one toilet. “There are issues of dignity,” shelt...