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This Monday, Dec. 11, the city is expecting to hold a summit about homelessness that will include state legislators, members of the county government, and municipal officials from Sanford and ...
The Tacoma Pierce County Coalition to End Homelessness is a local network of homeless service providers, government partners and advocates who organize on a near daily basis to mitigate ...
The homeless population is disproportionately African American; 2% of Mainers are Black, whereas 47% of homeless people in Maine are Black. 48% are White, lower than the state's 92% White figure; 0.5% are Asian/Pacific Islander compared to Maine being 1.5% Asian, and the Native American homeless population is roughly the same as the general ...
Florence House can house 50 or more former homeless women. The building includes 25 efficiency apartments , a safe-haven area with 15 semi-private spaces and 10 to 25 emergency shelter beds [ 2 ] The $7.9 million facility was completed on April 6, 2009. [ 3 ]
In May 2023, the city of Portland cleared an encampment of over 80 tents on Bayside Trail after weeks of debate in the city government. City shelters were full at the time of the sweep, and the majority of the encampment's residents could not be offered housing. [116] [117] In August, another encampment was cleared near Deering Oaks Park. [118]
Newsom on Thursday said the Department of Housing and Community Development will begin overseeing state homelessness grants, namely the Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention program, also ...
Momentum is building in a case regarding homeless encampments that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next month and could have major implications for cities as homelessness nationwide ...
The Interagency Council on the Homeless was authorized by Title II of the landmark Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act enacted on July 22, 1987 (PL 100-77). The McKinney Act established the Interagency Council on the Homeless as an "independent establishment" within the executive branch to review the effectiveness of federal activities and programs to assist people experiencing ...