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Apr 29 2024
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Salvation Army to expand homeless housing in the South Bay
The Salvation Army is teaming up with San Jose and Santa Clara County to help tackle the South Bay's homelessness crisis. The Salvation Army has been a part of San Jose since the 1800s and at its current site on Fourth Street for the past 60 years, but changes are coming to the location. On Monday, leaders from the county, the city and the nonprofit world unveiled plans to help the Salvation
NBC Bay AreaMay 16 2024
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Gov. Hochul's homeless outreach program has housed 450 New Yorkers in 2 years
A state initiative aimed at helping homeless New Yorkers living on the streets and subways has placed more than 450 individuals in long-term or permanent housing in two years, new data from the governor’s office shows. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Safe Options Support program deploys trained social workers, clinicians, nurses, case managers and people who have experienced homelessness to canvass
GothamistMay 15 2024
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Letters: Help homeless
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Re: “Politicians keep shifting blame on homelessness” (Page A9, May 12). The title of Dan Walters’ piece on homelessness is apt, but then Walters makes a similar error in shifting blame by attributing the problem to “high living costs, particularly housing.” You can’t solve a problem if you don’t understand the
San Jose Mercury NewsApr 16 2024
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Denver will sweep a homeless encampment without offering housing
A homeless encampment near an underpass at West 8th Avenue in Denver's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Photo: Esteban L. Hernandez/Axios Denver will clear a homeless encampment Tuesday, but for the first time in six months, it won't provide direct housing options for people affected. Why it matters: It's a blow to Mayor Mike Johnston's homeless strategy, which had guaranteed shelter to people being
AxiosApr 22 2024
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Gavin Newsom and House Republicans find common cause on homelessness
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and GOP Rep. Darrell Issa are on the same side of a political fight.
All it took to bring them together was a homelessness crisis.
On Monday the Supreme Court is taking up a case with monumental consequences for how cities in California and other states address encampments. At issue is whether local governments can remove encampments if there isn’t
PoliticoMay 08 2024
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Homeless Nonprofit Renovates Uptown Housing, Eyes Empty 7-Eleven Space on Colfax
Homeless services providers around Denver have been getting a bad rap lately.Lax security, violence and poor conditions at city shelters and supportive housing buildings have grabbed numerous headlines over the past few months, with residents complaining about safety and quality of life.The former DoubleTree hotel at 4040 Quebec Street — run by the Salvation Army — was converted to a homeless
Denver WestwordApr 24 2024
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Redondo Beach may restrict camping near supportive housing for homeless
Redondo Beach may soon restrict camping, or pitching tents, outside of permanent supportive housing for those who are homeless, expanding an ordinance that already prohibits camping at the city’s Pallet Shelters and in most public spaces. The City Council this week discussed making the move, but will wait until the U.S. Supreme Court decides what times and places it would be constitutional to
The Daily BreezeApr 19 2024
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Tiny home village in Kansas City, Kansas, will house those experiencing homelessness
Phil Jorgenson does not like to call it a homeless community. “Because as soon as they move here, they’re not homeless anymore,” said Jorgenson, one of the founders of Eden Village in Kansas City, Kansas. “They’re a community member, and they’re going to be good neighbors.” Built on the site of an old trailer park, near 10th Street and Metropolitan Avenue, Eden Village is slated to provide
The Kansas City StarMar 19 2024
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Vermont bill proposes path to housing the homeless
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - State lawmakers are planning the next stage of a program keeping a roof over the heads of homeless Vermonters. The pandemic-era hotel-motel program is the top program to house the homeless but state leaders say it’s not financially sustainable. A bill introduced this week intends to eliminate unsheltered homelessness and provide a pathway to permanent housing. The bill
WCAX 3Apr 14 2024
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Huntsville commits $2.3 million in federal funds for homeless housing project
The Huntsville City Council voted on Thursday to commit more than $2.3 million in federal funding for a 42-unit housing project for the homeless, formerly homeless and victims of domestic violence.
“This item is a further step in our process to address affordable housing within our community,” Community Development Manager Scott Erwin said before the vote.
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