#homeless-shelters

#homeless-shelters

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared a state of emergency Tuesday in response to the thousands of migrants who have settled in the city, often under harsh living conditions, after crossing the U.S.'s southern border to seek asylum.The executive order, signed less than a week before Lightfoot is set to leave office on Monday, authorizes the mayor's administration to move emergency funds and request the aid of the Illinois National Guard.

The fence went up in 2021, just as a homeless encampment with nearly 200 people was cleared out.Workers began dismantling the fence that surrounds Echo Park Lake on Monday, two years after a massive homeless encampment was cleared out of the historic park.Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, who took office in December, ran on a promise to take the temporary chain-link fence down, calling it a "symbol" of the city's biggest failure on homelessness.

Hobart is pleased to announce the winners of its 125 th Anniversary Celebration Contest-a giveaway of equipment prize packages, plus installation and up to one year of preventive maintenance.Tore Trupiano, owner of Mangia e Bevi in Oceanside, Calif., was the independent restaurant winner.Nicholas Angelakis, owner of Colonial Farms Gourmet Food and Market in Washington Crossing, Pa., won in the independent food retail store category.

But the entire Bay Area is facing a drastic scarcity of affordable care and living accommodations for older adults, making it difficult to find new homes for discharged residents.A total of 41 people have so far been identified as appropriate for discharge.However, only eight alternative placements have been identified for those residents, CEO Roland Pickens said during a recent Board of Supervisors hearing.

The site of a proposed men's homeless shelter in Brighton Beach is now slated to become a United States Postal Service facility after years of community outcry against the shelter.The city's Department of Homeless Services originally announced plans to open a new a 170-bed men's shelter in an empty building at 100 Neptune Ave. in 2020.

More than a week before the anticipated lifting of Title 42, a bus pulled into the Port Authority bus terminal in midtown Manhattan at 7 a.m.sharp, carrying 41 new migrants.Most were families with children, and most were from Venezuela, said Ilze Thielmann from Team TLC NYC, a group of volunteers who offer support to the new arrivals.

Phoenix officials will begin clearing one of the nation's largest homeless encampments this week in a downtown area known as the Zone, where neighbors and business owners have filed a lawsuit calling the tent community a great humanitarian crisis because of open drug use, violence and property damage.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails An NHS programme to deliver on-the-spot scans to people at risk of liver cancer has identified hundreds of people with disease that needs further checks.Roaming trucks have visited cities including Bristol, Liverpool, London, Brighton and Nottingham to give people in high-risk communities the scans at GP practices, addiction recovery services, food banks, diabetes clinics, sexual health clinics and homeless shelters, NHS England said.

With the COVID-19 state of emergency a thing of the past, California health officials on Friday unveiled plans to relax guidance on masking in high-risk settings and to end vaccination requirements for healthcare workers.Among the changes announced by the California Department of Public Health is the end of statewide mask requirements in healthcare and other indoor high-risk settings - including correctional facilities and emergency and homeless shelters - beginning April 3.
Effective the same day, California will no longer require COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers, including those in adult and direct care settings, correctional facilities and detention centers.

After being born into homelessness, Phillippa Marlowe-Hunt, 42, continued to spend most of her adult life sofa surfing.Next week, 20 years after her last night sleeping rough, she will sing opera to hundreds of people at London's Southbank Centre.Phillippa is one of about 100 people with experience of homelessness who will perform alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Sixteen choir as part of Streetwise Opera's Re:sound programme.

Multnomah County's homeless population hit an estimated 3,057 in 2022.After a two year hiatus due to COVID-19, the Joint Office of Homeless Services conducted a regional "Point in Time Count" to estimate the size of the unsheltered population in the tri-county area.They tallied 3,057 people sleeping outside -as opposed to shelter or temporarily staying at another person's house-which is a 30 percent increase since the last time unsheltered residents were counted in 2019.

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* City Council Passes $27 Million Budget Package to Fund Homeless Encampment Plan
Portland City Council approved the first bundle of funds for a plan to ban street camping and move people into mass encampments.

Portland City Council voted 3-0 Wednesday morning to approve a controversial budget package that lays the groundwork for a plan to criminalize street camping and build mass encampments to hold unhoused Portlanders by 2024.Both city commissioners Carmen Rubio and Jo Ann Hardesty were absent for the morning's vote.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (Getty) The pledge by newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to find roofs for the city's tens of thousands of homeless residents has begun.The mayor launched her Inside Safe plan to move people off the streets and indoors and end homeless encampments, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.

Dezeen has revealed the winners of this year's Dezeen Awards media categories, which include projects by Kaan Architechten, Morris + Company and Fantastic Offense.Kin Creatives and Matt Architecture collaborated to create a render of a fairytale-like fisherman's house on a bridge, winning them visualisation of the year.

Children read outdoors at an event organized by the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City in August 1950.Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Brooklyn Public Library has just announced that Where the Wild Things Are is its most borrowed book.Since Oct. 27, the institution has been sharing its 125 most checked-out books throughout its history to celebrate 125 years of service to the Brooklyn community in New York City.

Greg Green, 62, was last seen on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m., in the Trinity Bellwoods Park area, according to Toronto police.(Toronto Police Service) The family of a Toronto man missing since last Thursday is appealing for help from the public in finding him.Greg Green, 62, was last seen on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m., in the Trinity Bellwoods Park area, according to Toronto police.

Artwork recreating the late Queen's famous postage stamp image using thousands of hand-sewn mother of pearl buttons is set to fetch up to 20,000 at auction.The Pearly Queen Of St James's Palace by contemporary artist Ann Carrington will be sold to raise funds for the Queen Mother's Clothing Guild charity in its 140th year.