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... $335,670 in PPE to Indegenous communities. National Coalition for the Homeless and Covenant House are two organizations providing life-saving resources to those experiencing homelessness, including homeless youth.Helping Hands serves seniors and those who are immunocompromised or have preexisting conditions through grocery and other essential supply deliveries. You ...
... Port Authority." But the city he inherited had an ugly side, too. AIDS, guns and crack cocaine killed thousands of people each year. Unemployment soared. Homelessness was rampant. The city faced a $1.5 billion budget deficit. Dinkins' low-key, considered approach quickly came to be perceived as a flaw ...
... s really very similar to kids, all kids who age out without a family. They wind up overrepresented in jails. Incarceration rates are very high. Homelessness--that was in the article too--the percentage of LGBTQ kids in the homeless population, a great majority of which had been in foster ...
... Having lost both jobs in the spring, she is now living with her children in city-subsidized housing near Oakland, California, and hoping to avoid homelessness. The city housing, provided to people at heightened risk of the coronavirus, lasts only through December. Perez, 38, is a cancer survivor. "The pandemic ...
... experiences. One option would offer direct in-class instruction to a select group of students with special-education needs, those learning English, and students experiencing homelessness or otherwise deemed to be at-risk. That's essentially the same criteria that most D.C. charters used in selecting their own student ...
... rental housing at the Urban Institute, a think tank in Washington DC focused on economic and social policy. “With COVID-19, that disaster has struck.” Homelessness, then years of struggle Evictions are a leading cause of homelessness not just immediately, but for years afterward. Evictions stay on tenants’ rental history ...
... directly relating their visit to the smoke. Cat Wise: Dorian Zuniga is an outreach worker for the Portland nonprofit Transition Projects, which helps people experiencing homelessness find housing.Since last Thursday, the organization and others have handed out more than 26,000 N95 masks provided by the city and county ...
... cities, including Seattle, San Francisco, New York City and Austin, Texas, have voted to defund their police departments and reallocate the money to mental health, homelessness and education services. Although some unions have a history of excluding workers on the basis of gender and race, the marriage between the racial ...
... will continue to do everything they can to pay the rent. And they would have to attest that, if they are evicted, they would face homelessness or have to double or triple up with family or friends. And if they meet all of those eligibility requirements, the renter needs to ...
... when people’s employment is terminated or their hours cut back, when whole families are struggling to feed themselves, we have a mass epidemic of homelessness. ... We should expect all of that to influence crime as well,” Phelps said. “It’s a powder keg.” The highest risk of violence, she ...
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