April 24, 2020 NYC struggles with growing homeless population amid coronavirus crisis As the nation obeys orders to stay home amid the coronavirus crisis, it’s an impossible feat for the country’s homeless population. In New York City, more than 78,000 people, including children, are homeless.
April 22, 2020 Los Angeles converting rec centers into homeless shelters during coronavirus crisis, despite outbreak worries The temporary shelter at the Cheviot Hills Recreation Center is not unique in Los Angeles, as the city has set up 20 temporary housing facilities for the homeless across the sprawl of the United States' second largest city since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, with at least four more planned.
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.