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Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020, there was a confirmed case at a pop-up shelter in Halifax, Nova…
The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba is giving free steel fire barrels to unhoused residents living outdoors. Officials say it’s to…
Declaring that “We need to take back our Tenderloin,” a hip, mixed-income neighborhood in San Francisco with a large unhoused…
San Diego is building what's being touted as the city's first harm reduction-based homeless shelter. The facility, currently under construction…
Austin, Texas, is known for music festivals, a booming tech industry and progressive politics in a conservative state. By 2022,…
On August 9, the city of Austin began enforcing a public camping ban first approved by voters in May. Police…
Winston Tokuhisa first became homeless in 2006, at the age of 20. Since then, he’s been on and off the…
On July 19, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a $12 billion funding package to address homelessness—the largest single sum a…
After months of keeping participants in the dark, a Texas state-run program that covers the cost of lifesaving HIV medication for…