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News Articles: Homeless

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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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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  • 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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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
As RV Wastewater Pilot Program coordinator for Seattle Public Utilities, Chris Wilkerson visits people living in motor homes and trailers and offers to pump out their waste for free.

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  • National

Homeless In Seattle Get Help From City Waste Pumper

The city has noticed a rise in illegal sewage spills as the number of people living out of RVs and other vehicles has increased dramatically.

January 03, 2021
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By:
  • Erin Slomski-Pritz
A demonstrator holds a sign in the Mission in San Francisco on Nov, 16 calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents.

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  • National

California Struggles To House Thousands Of Homeless Placed In Hotels During Pandemic

When the coronavirus hit, thousands of unsheltered people in the state were moved into hotels under a plan known as "Project Roomkey." Now many are ending up back on the street.

December 10, 2020
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  • Erin Baldassari
A free food refrigerator in New York City organized by volunteers with the volunteer collective A New World In Our Hearts.

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  • National

Freedge Movement: Grassroots Efforts Fight Food Insecurity With Free Refrigerators

An ad hoc network of activists and anarchists from New York to L.A. are setting up the food refrigerators to help address neighborhoods in need, a problem that's grown more acute during the pandemic.

September 29, 2020
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By:
  • Eric Westervelt
Daybreak homeless day center provides coronavirus testing in Macon.

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  • Health

Macon Organizations That Help The Homeless Struggle During Pandemic

As middle Georgia continues to deal with the coronavirus, Macon’s homeless are receiving help from a patchwork of local non-profits banding together to help during this time of economic and public health uncertainty.

July 24, 2020
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By:
  • Lars Lonnroth
Mercer University in Macon conducted pop up coronavirus testing at a homeless day center after other labs turned people away for not having a car for "drive up" tests.

Coronavirus Tests For The Homeless When 'Drive Up' Isn't An Option

The Daybreak Center in Macon is an oasis for the homeless community with laundry, meals, showers and computers. And also, healthcare.

June 05, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A person experiencing homelessness in Atlanta.

Atlanta's Isolation Hotel For Homeless Opens Thursday

As many of us worry about the health and welfare of ourselves and loved ones right now, people experiencing homelessness are especially vulnerable to...

April 02, 2020
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By:
  • Rickey Bevington
Dr. Keren Landman and Dr. Carlos del Rio joined "On Second Thought" to discuss how existing inequities play into the risks - and outcomes - of a global pandemic like coronavirus.

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  • Health Care

How The Coronavirus Pandemic Magnifies Health Inequities - And Why Mitigation Matters

The coronavirus pandemic has led to travel restrictions, canceled events, school closures, consumer panic, and mayhem in stock markets across the world....

March 13, 2020
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