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A chilly, snowy start to the new year is forcing the Rockford area homeless population to seek emergency shelter. Cold snap drives Rockford area homeless indoors. Here's where they're staying
In 2023, in Tulsa and Oklahoma counties alone, more than 2,500 Oklahomans lived unsheltered or in homeless shelters, according to that year’s Point in Time counts.
The new state law collides with the Housing First model, which is the framework for Tulsa and Oklahoma City coalitions fighting homelessness at the grassroots level. The Cicero Institute asserts ...
For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
The 1931 bond issue of $500,000 provided funds to construct the art deco-style Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion and make other necessary improvements, which led to the 1935 legislation that elevated the small local free fair to state fair status. [3] In 1949, the Tulsa State Fair merged with a spring livestock show to bring livestock events to the ...
The Oklahoma State Fair is a fair and exposition in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It takes place in mid-September each year, and along with the Tulsa State Fair it is one of two state fairs in Oklahoma. During the eleven-day run, the Oklahoma State Fair attracts close to one million people. [1] The fairgrounds also holds horse shows and rodeos.
Day of Caring sends 300 high school students to 19 Rockford area nonprofits to lend a hand and learn valuable lessons. ... "It gives me a new idea of what it is actually like (to be homeless ...
Tulsa (/ ˈ t ʌ l s ə / ⓘ TUL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. [5]