April 21, 2020 Washington coronavirus cases surge among homeless shelter population, death reported at county isolation site Coronavirus cases have surged at shelters and housing for the homeless in a Washington county, with one death reported at a site for those who have no place to self-isolate, health officials said Monday.
April 19, 2020 California secures over 15,000 hotel rooms for homeless during coronavirus pandemic, Newsom says The state of California has acquired over 15,000 hotel rooms to shelter homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday while announcing a new agreement with hotel chain Motel 6.
April 14, 2020 VA sets up first government-run tent city in Los Angeles to halt spread of coronavirus With concerns being raised about the possibility of a mass outbreak in traditional facilities for the homeless like tightly-packed shelters and group homes, the Department of Veterans Affairs last week announced that it was setting up a temporary tent city on the grounds of its sprawling campus on Los Angeles Westside.
April 9, 2020 San Diego's move to shelter homeless in convention center will create coronavirus 'powder keg,' activist warns Outreach workers in San Diego are calling the city’s plan to bring more than 800 homeless individuals into a temporary shelter in the San Diego Convention Center amid the coronavirus outbreak “a powder keg” that could permit the contagion to rapidly spread among one of the most vulnerable segments of the population.
April 6, 2020 California retirement community angry at plan to move homeless with coronavirus to nearby hotels A plan to move homeless people with coronavirus into hotels in California’s Orange County has pitted two groups that are highly vulnerable to the contagion against each other, just as the country’s most populous state gears up for what is expected to be the most critical phase in the fight against COVID-19.
April 3, 2020 San Francisco to house thousands of homeless in hotels amid coronavirus outbreak Thousands from San Francisco’s growing homeless population will reportedly be housed in several of the city’s empty hotels to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, a concern that became more pressing as a local shelter reported the first homeless COVID-19 case Thursday.
March 31, 2020 Coronavirus strikes homeless in Los Angeles and Seattle as local officials grapple with outbreak The first cases of COVID-19 have been reported among the homeless in Los Angeles and Seattle – adding to the already heightened concerns of local officials that the contagion could spread like wildfire through an extremely vulnerable segment of the population.
March 31, 2020 Las Vegas temporary homeless shelter after coronavirus case called 'inhumane,' people seen sleeping on asphalt The city of Las Vegas said that it opened an emergency homeless shelter a parking lot after a man tested positive for coronavirus last week.
March 30, 2020 Las Vegas parking lot turned into temporary homeless shelter after coronavirus case shuts facility A parking lot in Sin City is now serving as a temporary homeless shelter after a facility had to be closed when a man tested positive for coronavirus last week.
March 26, 2020 Homeless man in Las Vegas tests positive for coronavirus, was in facilities while symptomatic: officials A homeless man who received services at two facilities in Las Vegas has tested positive for coronavirus.