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To Reach The Homeless, An Alabama Church Brings 'The Steeple To The Streets'

12:55pm June 01, 2020

Montgomery County has emerged as a COVID-19 hot spot. At River City Church, where half the congregation is or once was homeless, outreach programs work to protect their most vulnerable.

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Homeless Families Face High Hurdles Home-Schooling Their Kids

9:32am April 22, 2020

by Eilís O'Neill

Millions of children are taking classes online because of the coronavirus pandemic. But for families who live in homeless shelters, it's more than just inconvenient. It's overwhelming.

Health & Safety

Guilford County's COVID-19 Response Task Force Bears Fruit

4:01pm April 16, 2020

by David Ford

A Guilford County initiative to help the homeless during the pandemic is starting to bear fruit. Clients with COVID-19 now have a place to quarantine.

A homeless encampment seen on Monday in San Francisco. City lawmakers are demanding that the mayor step up efforts to house the city's homeless population to protect them from COVID-19.

San Francisco Lawmakers Order Mayor To Lease Hotel Rooms For Homeless

2:03am April 15, 2020

by Adrian Florido

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance giving the mayor 12 days to secure thousands of rooms to house and protect the city's homeless population during the COVID-19 crisis.

NC Counties Take Steps To Keep Homeless Safe During COVID-19 Pandemic

4:14pm April 03, 2020

by Keri Brown

It's hard to shelter in place when you have no place to call home.

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Health & Safety

Nonprofits Battle COVID-19 On The Front Lines

3:03pm March 27, 2020

by David Ford

As the pandemic continues to disrupt our lives here in the Triad, local nonprofits entrusted to help society's most vulnerable are themselves struggling to provide services in compliance

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Organizers of the Homeless Connect say the event outgrew its old space at the Salvation Army and had to be moved to the city's large downtown convention center.

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To Combat Homelessness, Spokane Is Starting To Put Relationships Before Punishments

5:04am February 19, 2020

by Kirk Siegler

America's worsening homelessness crisis can feel like an intractable problem. But Spokane, Wash., may be having some early success trying some new tactics to help its most vulnerable.

In Sonoma County, Calif., officials are struggling to address a homeless encampment with roughly 200 residents.

National

Sprawling Homeless Camps — Modern 'Hoovervilles' — Vex California

12:46pm January 13, 2020

by Eric Westervelt

The wrangling over what to do about a sprawling homeless camp in Santa Rosa, Calif., highlights how hard it is to find answers for a growing crisis across California and much of the West.

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Norm Ciha says he lost his bedding, clothes and the medicine he'd been prescribed to treat hepatitis C during a sweep of his camp outside an Ikea in Emeryville, Calif., in November 2018.

Sweeps Of Homeless Camps In California Aggravate Key Health Issues

11:50am January 10, 2020

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Cities have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling homeless camps that they say pose a risk to health and safety. But that's meant some displaced people are losing needed medications.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is is planning to ask state lawmakers to approve more than $1 billion in additional aid to combat the state's growing homelessness problem.

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California Governor Pushes $1.4 Billion Plan To Tackle Homelessness

5:31pm January 08, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

As the state's homeless crisis grows, Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing a plan to subsidize rent and build more affordable housing. The Trump administration has said state leaders are not doing enough.