can lose their medications to theft or raids on their encampments and may be experiencing other challenges such as mental health issues and substance use. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench into HIV and
In the two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, gun violence in Seattle has both surged and transformed. While the number of gun homicides fell from 2020 to 2021, both the number of people shot and the number of shots fired rose by roughly 40 percent. One of the key driver...
With the rising cost of living prices, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and and a lack of mental health resources, homelessness has been again on the rise. photo by:Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector Rep. Francis Awerkamp said the discussion on housing would be...
“Despite massive infusions of public resources, businesses and residents are suffering the increasingly negative effects of long-term urban camping,” the brief continues. Among them: “enormous volumes of garbage, human waste, and other health hazards like used needles.” Grants Pass is appealing ...
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...
February 25, 2022 Formerly unhoused resident Geneva Strickland walks down the trail near Coyote Creek to find homeless camps in the early morning hours of Feb. 23. Strickland took part in Santa Clara County's point in time homeless count. Photo by Tran Nguyen...
“zero-tolerance policy” on homeless encampments; 62 percent believe that the problem is getting worse because the city “wastes money by being inefficient” and “is not accountable for how the money is spent,” and that “too many resources are spent on the wrong approaches to the problem...
Coronavirus-related school closures come at a steep price for low-income and homeless students who rely on on-campus resources to get through school.
Velasco—who spent the ensuing two weeks quarantined in a hotel room after potential Covid-19 exposure at the shelter—has been going through old photos, too, trying to remember Paulson as he lived to cope with the way he died. Except for the vigil, one of Velas...
February 19, 2022 City workers pulled up in trucks Friday morning at the sprawling encampment along the Guadalupe River Creek to haul away trash, tents and safety hazards such as fuel cans and car batteries. Photo by Tran Nguyen. Subscribe To Our Newsletter ...