Categories: News, Opinion, Sara Foss Remote learning wasn’t working for the children who reside at the City Mission of Schenectady. “There were a lot of distractions,” recalled Quanisha Williams, a City Mission resident whose five-year-old twins are in kindergarten. “I probably said ‘look at your teacher’ a million times.” MikeContinue Reading
Community organizers provide food, clothing, shelter, CPR training and medicine at Camp Last Hope. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man makes a fire by a poster signifying Camp Last Hope, Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. | Jan. 16, 2021, 1:00 p.m. Nestled on either side of an out-of-useContinue Reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced city leaders to reinvent the Spokane region’s annual count of its unsheltered population. At the same time that many worry an economic downturn caused by COVID-19 will worsen homelessness, the pandemic has made conducting an in-person tally of the unsheltered potentially dangerous. Citing the hazardsContinue Reading
Roughly two weeks since posting notices to clear encampments and personal belongings from Monument Circle, the city has directed about 36 people to various community services. More:Indianapolis directs homeless population to clear encampments on Monument Circle Monument Circle on Thursday afternoon was largely cleared of trash, personal belongings and makeshift encampmentsContinue Reading
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When winter weather arrives, homeless people sometimes have nowhere to go. City leaders are now working with a metro nonprofit to address the growing number of homeless families, collaborating on a plan to provide temporary housing during the winter months. A flimsy, blue plastic tent onContinue Reading
New San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria plans to take bold steps on homelessness, climate change and social equity during his first year in office, but he says the city is in a “fragile” state because of the COVID-19 pandemic and financial problems. Gloria used his State of the City addressContinue Reading
click to enlarge Downwinders Then and NowIf you think it’s just a sad part of history, you need to look around you and at the attempts to rejuvenate nuclear testing. You have a chance to join an enlightening discussion with award-winning writer, cinematographer and producer John Howe in aContinue Reading
January 11, 2021 The City of West Hollywood recognizes January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. During the month of January, advocates, organizations, and individuals unite to raise awareness about the issue of human trafficking. In commemoration of the month, the globe lanterns on Santa Monica Boulevard betweenContinue Reading
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) – Every year millions of men, women and children are trafficked worldwide, including right here in the United States. Bernadette Rixner, the outreach coordinator for Siouxland Coalition Against Human Trafficking, said the number of labor and sex trafficking reports in Iowa has more than doubled. ThereContinue Reading
THE MOST RECENT count, taken in late November, listed 164 people living outside within Manchester city limits. And as of Dec. 1, three had died, one from a fire inside his tent likely caused by an improperly installed propane heater. Those facts paint a stark reality. Unless they die, homelessContinue Reading