As Camping Ban Looms, Burien Considers Privately Owned Lot Near Library as Potential Shelter Site By Erica C. Barnett On Monday night, the Burien City Council decided not to immediately approve abillthat would ban sleeping outdoors in the city “at any time between sunset and sunrise,” opt...
MORE: Unemployment, isolation: COVID-19's mental health impact Marcy Stidum is the director of Campus Awareness, Resource, and Empowerment (CARE) Services at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. CARE Services offers four programs, including support for students experiencing homelessness, food...
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...
but city officials say the number of people experiencing homelessness in the community has continued to increase in 2021. (This year’s survey was scheduled for this week, but with the Omicron variant driving COVID cases
Introduction Approximately 580 000 people experienced homelessness on any given day in 2020 across the US, and this incidence has increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.1 People experiencing homelessness have worse health-related quality of life than housed individuals.2-5 Structural...
that care engagement and viral suppression did not decrease. The number of monthly visits stayed the same, and the proportion of people who made monthly visits was similar before and after the order. However, more people dropped out of the program: five pre-COVID and eight during COVID. ...
than as a shelter program. We can find a way to remove people who are vulnerable to being victims or perpetrators of violence from the street in a more sustainable way than putting them in jail.” JustCARE’s funding, which includes federal COVID relief dollars, is set toexpire in June...
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,” shelter...
If not for covid vaccinations, I would have been to the fairgrounds but once in a decade. The fairgrounds could become an excellent hub for social services and community for the UNHOUSED. They lost that when their village along the creek was removed. Now they are scattered, and then ...