COVID-19 Pandemic When Malaysia implemented its partial lockdown in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, over 500 homeless people living on various streets in Kuala Lumpur were housed in several temporary shelters in and near the city. However, as the country eased restrictions, many pe...
” I ask as she walks toward me. Her male friend (or maybe he is her son) is already half way across the room. I am keeping a distrustful eye on him. Earlier this year, a stranger prowled our church during worship services and stole a computer and other...
“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...
overpasses, and quiet industrial zones. Unhoused people tend to avoid residential neighborhoods, likely due to NIMBYism and a lack of nearby services. Correspondingly, large homeless services and shelters near freeways or industrial streets are often accompanied by encampments, whereas smaller...
In California, Homekey is an outgrowth of Project Roomkey, a temporary effort during the coronavirus outbreak to find shelter at hotels, which Elliot said provided beds for 42,000 homeless people 65 and older or others susceptible to COVID-19. It has been extended through June 2022. ...
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 ...
Anthony Ruffin, Sieglinde Von Deffner, and Jeanette Rowe, left to right, talk while people arrive for COVID-19 vaccinations at Leimert Park Plaza. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times) Early on the morning of Jan. 8, Ruffin and his wife Jonni Miller ...
s promise to cut federal funding to cities that refuse to participate in mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. But the city has done little to plan for what happens when we no longer have access to federal emergency response dollars (pretty critical during COVID), federal housing funds,...
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...