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  • Can alternative living encampments help with the homelessness crisis?

    May 07, 2020 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Cruces, New Mexico

    To cope with the crush of people experiencing homelessness around the West, formalized encampments like Camp Hope provide local governments with a quick, affordable way to put people into safe, temporary housing where they have ready access to health care and other services. At Camp Hope, residents live in tents and the camp provides a kitchen, running water, and bathrooms. But there’s a tension between such camps’ success at mitigating an immediate health and safety threat versus solving the problem in a more definitive way.

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  • 'I might have died if they hadn't rescued me': life inside the new hotels for the homeless

    May 07, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

    Across England and Wales, over 5,000 individuals experiencing homelessness have found temporary accommodations in hotels. Paid for by the government as part of it’s COVID-19 relief efforts, hotels are working with social services to help provide housing, food, and other basic necessities to those going through housing insecurity. Not without challenges, the initiative has seen zero deaths from the pandemic but those working to help this initiative worry about the long-term.

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  • Hotel Vouchers 4 All Provides San Diego Homeless People with Shelter During Pandemic

    May 05, 2020 |

    Invisible People |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    When COVID-19 hit the U.S., Hotel Vouchers 4 All was created as an emergency response to finding housing for San Diego residents experiencing homelessness. Funded by donations, the initiative has partnered with a local motel to negotiate lower rates for individuals to stay and socially distance during the pandemic. It also helps provide meals, clothes, PPE, and access to health services, but with limited funding and a lack of support from the city, it’s sustainability hangs in question.

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  • COVID-19 Accelerated This West Virginia Community's Efforts to End Homelessness

    May 05, 2020 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Clarksburg, West Virginia

    West Virginians from Clarksburg mobilized to tackle the issue of homelessness once the pandemic highlighted the vulnerability faced by the homeless who could not shelter in place. Advocates came together to get people off the streets and into motel rooms paid for by nonprofits and organized by local government. The city looked 40 miles away, to the achievements of Morgantown, which was able to bring together different sectors to keep people off the streets. Immediate goals of keeping people safe from the virus are part of a long-term plan to create housing and provide mental and physical health services.

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  • Mental health care becomes team effort in NH as coronavirus pandemic increases need for working together

    May 03, 2020 |

    Manchester Ink Link |

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    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    New Hampshire's community mental health centers are working together to deliver both in-person and telehealth services to community members during the coronavirus pandemic. All 10 of the state's centers are "sharing ideas and helping each other with what is working and identifying what isn’t working," while also working to help reduce barriers to health care access for those experiencing homelessness.

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  • Coronavirus pushed Seattle to treat homelessness differently. Will those changes last?

    May 03, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Prompted by the threat of COVID-19, Seattle and King County have rapidly taken steps to protect people experiencing homelessness with responses that activists have long sought. By moving hundreds of people out of crowded shelters into hotels, installing hygiene stations, and suspending the removal of encampments, officials scrambled to prevent the spread of the virus in ways that advocates hope will remain the policy after the crisis has passed. But the crisis has also gutted government budgets, and so permanent solutions may still be elusive.

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  • ‘It's miraculous' — no known coronavirus cases in Acadiana's homeless shelters

    April 27, 2020 |

    The Current (Louisiana) |

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    Response Location: United States, Lafayette, Louisiana

    Having learned from failures during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, an outreach center in Louisiana was uniquely prepared to take preventative measures as the coronavirus outbreak spread, and so far, the efforts have worked. Not one case has been reported as of yet at Acadiana CARES, and many are crediting that to the rapid intervention strategies that included strict adherence to social distancing and isolating anyone who had underlying conditions or was considered vulnerable.

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  • L.A. races to save 15,000 homeless people from coronavirus — one hotel room at a time

    April 18, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In Los Angeles, the city-led effort, Project Roomkey, is working to get 15,000 people experiencing homelessness into hotel rooms in the fight against COVID-19. Working with the LA Homeless Services Authority and state negotiators, partnerships with hotels are being developed and are already housing some of these individuals. While costing nearly $190 million, it is helping save lives and hopefully keeping hotels afloat.

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  • ‘Feel Like A Million Dollars': Shower-On-Wheels Program Offers Hope, Hygiene For Homeless Sacramentans During COVID-19

    April 13, 2020 |

    CapRadio |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    In Sacramento, a mobile shower unit is helping the city's homeless population stay clean and safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. Volunteers with the unit are also distributing fresh clothes and bagged lunches.

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  • Urban farm provides homeless shelter residents with good food and opportunities

    April 09, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    An innovative partnership between Bell Shelter, a homeless shelter, Grow Good, an urban farm, and the Salvation Army is bringing healthy food and cooking to a new audience in Los Angeles. People experiencing homelessness are able to get paid to learn culinary skills, and the food from the urban garden both feeds the homeless residents as well as earns income through a social enterprise model that helps fund the training and support programming. After shelter clients participate in the 12 week culinary training program, many are able to get full-time jobs at local culinary institutions.

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