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News Articles: Homeless

Pat Garrett, left, and her partner Cedric moments before wheeling their home out of the way of Macon-Bibb County Public Works bulldozer on June 8, 2022. Macon-Bibb County bulldozed one of the city's largest homeless encampments, saying it was necessary as a public health measure.

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  • Economy

Some Georgia cities have plans for rehousing instead of pushing the homeless out of sight

As the unhoused become more a part of our daily lives, some communities are taking action. Sometimes it means simply pushing the unhoused out of the way. Increasingly it can mean creating, and sticking to, a plan. 

 

July 13, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Pat Garrett pauses while packing up her home at the edge of a homeless encampment on Riverside Drive in Macon on June 8, 2022. Macon-Bibb County bulldozed one of the city's largest homeless encampments, saying it was necessary as a public health measure.

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  • Economy

Macon-Bibb County bulldozes one of the city's largest homeless encampments

Officials in Macon-Bibb County took action against the city’s growing population of unhoused people with the bulldozing of a downtown encampment Wednesday. 

June 08, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Henry Jones, who kept getting sicker after 11 years of homelessness, was admitted in 1991 into Christ House, one of the first medical respite programs in the country.

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  • Health Care

Medical respite offers refuge for homeless people recovering from illness

A growing number of private insurance companies are starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people. Here's what's driving the trend.

May 30, 2022
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By:
  • Ryan Levi and
  • Dan Gorenstein
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a January news conference at a Manhattan subway station. There, he and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced new state initiatives to get homeless people out of subways and trains and into shelters.

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  • National

NYC homeless advocates say Mayor Eric Adams' street sweeps aren't working

Homeless advocates say the NYC mayor's approach fails to consider the needs of at-risk populations.

May 13, 2022
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
An illustration of location pins on a white background.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Mayors on the 'laboratory' of local governance; Ossoff kicks off Jackson hearings

Wednesday on Political Rewind: We sat down with three Georgia mayors discuss governance in their towns. Then, we dug into more election news as Trump endorses another Georgia candidate. We also reviewed Day 2 of hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

March 23, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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Long lines for low gas prices.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Perdue qualifies; Kemp & Warnock want to halt gas taxes; Bill targets homelessness

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Leaders on both sides of the aisle are working to relieve pain at the pump. Gov. Brian Kemp and Sen. Raphael Warnock want to halt gas taxes as prices climb. Plus, Abrams sticks to her 2018 messaging after qualifying. Also: More updates from under the Gold Dome.

March 09, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
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Homeless person on the street in Atlanta.

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  • News

Senate bill targets homelessness by stripping funds from cities, banning permanent housing

A bill in the Georgia Senate would ban local governments from using federal dollars to build permanent housing for homeless individuals and further financially penalize cities that have a higher-than-average homeless population. It would also make it a misdemeanor to take shelter on state property.

March 05, 2022
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  • Riley Bunch
Expected sub-freezing temperatures moved the Brookdale Resource Center in Macon to look for volunteers to help set up and run emergency shelter space in the old gymnasium there through the weekend.

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  • Weather

Cold prompts emergency call for shelter volunteers in Macon

Advocates for those experiencing homelessness in Bibb County fear the predicted cold snap coming this weekend could prove deadly for those living on the streets.

January 14, 2022
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  • Liz Fabian
Joshua Ray, a social worker with the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, inside one of the apartments of the building tribal leaders bought in Lakeport, Calif., through Homekey.

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  • National

California Turned Pandemic Rentals Into Permanent Housing For Homeless People

California leased hotel rooms for unhoused residents during the pandemic to move them out of crowded shelters. Then it bought some of those hotels to create long-term homes for them.

July 16, 2021
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  • Molly Solomon and
  • Erin Baldassari
Mehran Mossaddad is a single dad who drives Uber for a living. But when the pandemic hit, he stopped because he couldn't leave his daughter home alone. He fell behind on rent and is facing eviction.

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  • National

Millions Could Face Eviction With Federal Moratorium Ending And A Logjam In Aid

Congress approved $47 billion to help struggling renters avoid eviction. But that money still isn't reaching many who need it. And an eviction moratorium from the CDC expires at the end of the month.

June 10, 2021
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  • Chris Arnold
Barbara Gaught stands outside the home she's now renting in Billings, Mont., with her 5-year-old son, Blazen, and their dog, Arie. Gaught and her family were evicted from the mobile home they had owned outright and lived in for 16 years because they fell behind on 'lot rent' for the little plot of land under the mobile home.

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  • Business

Losing It All: Mobile Home Owners Evicted Over Small Debts During Pandemic

Mobile home owners right now are twice as likely as other homeowners to be behind on housing payments. And some are losing their homes over small amounts of rent they owe for land the home sits on.

April 16, 2021
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  • Chris Arnold
The Texas Supreme Court has allowed an emergency order to expire. Housing groups warn that this could result in thousands of people losing their homes to eviction. Tenants' rights advocates, like those pictured here in Boston, have pushed for stronger protections for renters during the pandemic.

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  • National

Texas Courts Open Eviction Floodgates: 'We Just Stepped Off A Cliff'

Judges in Texas are being told it's not their job to enforce a CDC order aimed at stopping evictions. Housing groups fear that a wave of unnecessary evictions will leave thousands homeless.

April 07, 2021
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  • Chris Arnold
Gregory Curry has had almost all his belongings in boxes and in a storage locker since he was evicted in August. He spent more than seven months struggling to survive financially and unable to find another landlord willing to rent to him.

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  • National

Evicted And Homeless Due To Pandemic — 'I Literally Had To Sleep In My Car'

Getting evicted during COVID can risk a person's health and doom their ability to find a home. The extension this week of a federal order preventing evictions could save many people from that fate.

March 31, 2021
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  • Chris Arnold
Tenants' rights advocates protesting evictions during the pandemic in Boston this month. They want the Biden administration to not only extend, but also strengthen, an eviction order from the CDC aimed at keeping people in their homes during the outbreak.

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  • National

Biden To Extend Order Limiting Pandemic Evictions

On his first day in office, the president plans to sign an executive order extending the CDC's moratorium on evictions. Housing advocates say the CDC rule needs to be strengthened.

January 20, 2021
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
Macon-Bibb County Emergency Management Director Spencer Hawkins gives a tour of the new Brookdale Warming Center Monday.

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  • Economy

Macon-Bibb County, Volunteers Set To Open, Staff New Homeless Shelter

A new 24 hour, seven day a week warming shelter for the homeless will open this week in Macon-Bibb County. The shelter was put together in the wake of the freezing deaths of two men, one of whom had slept under Interstate 75 Christmas Eve.

January 04, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
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