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    Nurse Modesta Littleman vaccinates patient Peter Sulewski in late January, on the first day of vaccinations at a clinic run by Health Care for the Homeless in Baltimore.
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    Vaccinating Homeless Patients Against COVID-19: 'All Bets Are Off'

    Feb 17, 2021
    A community health center is now immunizing the local homeless population. But vaccination logistics, already complex, are compounded by the additional barriers in communication and transportation.
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    Sheila Ambert says she did everything she was supposed to do to be protected from eviction by an order from the CDC. But her landlord is pushing ahead trying to evict her anyway. Housing advocates say the protections need to be strengthened.
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    Renters Are Getting Evicted Despite 'CDC Eviction Ban' — 'I'm Scared'

    Feb 12, 2021
    Some landlords are evicting tenants despite an order from the CDC aimed at stemming the spread of COVID-19 by preventing evictions. That has led to calls to strengthen protections.
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    Inauguration Day: Live Updates
    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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    Biden To Extend Order Limiting Pandemic Evictions

    Jan 20, 2021
    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.
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    Have You Been Evicted During The Pandemic, Or Afraid Of Losing Your Home?

    Jan 05, 2021
    NPR wants to hear from you if you have lost income and couldn't pay rent to your landlord or needed a mortgage forbearance.
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    National
    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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    Homeless In Seattle Get Help From City Waste Pumper

    Jan 03, 2021
    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.
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    Economy
    A protestor holds up an eviction sign in Washington, DC. The rescue package just passed in Congress sets aside $25 billion for rental assistance and extends a CDC order aimed at preventing evictions.
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    COVID-19 Relief Bill Could Stave Off Historic Wave Of Evictions

    Dec 24, 2020
    A rental assistance program in the bill is key for helping millions of struggling renters at risk of losing their homes in the middle of winter as the pandemic rages on.
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    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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    California Struggles To House Thousands Of Homeless Placed In Hotels During Pandemic

    Dec 10, 2020
    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.
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    A North Las Vegas Homeless Camp Was Bulldozed. Now What?

    Dec 07, 2020

    Monday November 30, officials bulldozed an encampment that houseless people had been living in along a wash near Lake Mead Boulevard and Losee Road.

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    Light At The End Of The Storm Drain

    Nov 25, 2020

    Advocates often say Las Vegas’ homelessness problem doesn’t get enough attention.

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    Elections
    A homeless man walks downtown in East Liverpool, Ohio. Efforts to register homeless voters in the state have relied on churches and shelters volunteering to receive mail-in ballots for people with no permanent address.
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    In Cleveland, Homeless Get A Helping Hand With Mail-In Ballots

    Oct 14, 2020
    James Harrison is one of around 150 people now able to vote thanks to registration drives aimed at making sure the democratic process is accessible to everyone, regardless of housing status.
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    Home and Away

    Aug 07, 2020

    From the back porch to the Great Basin to urgent activism, this week's Friday Photos takes you places

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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    During their patrol of the Bear Creek Greenway, Jackson County Sheriff's deputies walk through a years-old encampment that deputies call "the Hobbit House."
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    'Your Help Doesn't Help Me.' In Oregon, The Unsheltered Tire Of Shuffling Around

    Jul 17, 2020
    As the coronavirus shut down homeless shelters in Southern Oregon, civic leaders told those in need to relocate to the nearby woods. Now sheriff's deputies are relocating them before fire season.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Lavon (here before the pandemic) considers herself fortunate compared with other people without housing.
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    For Portland, Ore., Woman, Home These Days Is Where She Parks Her Minivan

    Jun 23, 2020
    Naida Lavon, 67, was recently furloughed from her job because of the pandemic and lost her housing in March. Now, she lives out of her minivan as she navigates the changed world around her.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    The latest Los Angeles homeless count found 66,433 people now live on the streets, in shelters and in vehicles around LA County.
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    Homelessness In Los Angeles County Rises Sharply

    Jun 12, 2020
    Los Angeles County's annual homeless count came out Friday, and shows a double digit increase over last year. The pandemic is also causing future homelessness projections to skyrocket.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Volunteer Earl Banks guides a load of food to a waiting van at a Denver branch of the Volunteers of America.
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    Coronavirus Drives Away Volunteers Just As They're Needed Most

    Apr 03, 2020
    Many food banks and homeless shelters depend on volunteers. But fewer are showing up at a time when the need for these services is skyrocketing.
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    COVID-19 Threatens Reno's Unsheltered Population And Service Providers

    Mar 25, 2020

    The coronavirus has arrived in Nevada, triggering a mandate from Governor Steve Sisolak that all non-essential business

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    In Las Vegas, Transitional Housing Now Includes Container Homes

    Mar 11, 2020

    Housing advocate Arnold Stalk has packed his dreams into used shipping containers.

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    Shipping Containers To Provide Las Vegas Affordable Housing

    Mar 03, 2020

    LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas businessman plans to develop affordable housing units from the large shipping containers that are normally used to transport merchandise.

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    National
    Organizers of the Homeless Connect say the event outgrew its old space at the Salvation Army and had to be moved to the city's large downtown convention center.
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    To Combat Homelessness, Spokane Is Starting To Put Relationships Before Punishments

    Feb 19, 2020
    America's worsening homelessness crisis can feel like an intractable problem. But Spokane, Wash., may be having some early success trying some new tactics to help its most vulnerable.
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    World
    Pope Francis shares a meal with guests and volunteers of the "Palace of the Poor."
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    Pope Francis Turned A Vatican Palazzo Into 'Palace Of The Poor' For Homeless People

    Feb 07, 2020
    "If you sleep on the ground covered in cardboard and have to wake up at 5 a.m. before the police come to shove you away, and then you find a place like this, what more do you want?" a new guest says.
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    Nevada To Receive $16 Million From Feds For Homeless Services

    Jan 16, 2020

    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced homelessness assistance programs across Nevada will share more than $16 million in federal grants.

    More than $13 million will go to programs in Clark County.

    Statewide, 50 programs will receive funding. 

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    National
    Eagle Village resident Jolene Neiss says it's important to make each room feel like the resident's home with decorations, knickknacks and family photos.
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    Seattle Shelter Focuses On Native Peoples Experiencing Homelessness

    Dec 30, 2019
    Organizers hope potential residents are more comfortable coming to a facility that attends to their specific cultural needs.
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    Law
    San Francisco police officers wait while homeless people collect their belongings. Nearly a quarter of the country's homeless population lives in California.
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    Supreme Court Won't Hear Case On Ban Against Homeless Sleeping In Public Spaces

    Dec 16, 2019
    The denial upholds a lower court ruling that put severe limits on cities' ability to enforce anti-camping ordinances on streets and in public rights of way. Advocates for the homeless lauded the move.
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    Simon Says
    A person sleeps on a sidewalk near New York's Times Square this past week. A new report says more and more American cities are passing laws that make it illegal to sleep outside, on the street, in a park or in your own car.
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    Opinion: Should It Be Illegal To Sleep Outside?

    Dec 14, 2019
    Laws that ban sleeping outside favor relocation over resolving the problems that force people onto the streets.
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    National
    Robert Marbut has been tapped to lead the federal office on homelessness. Marbut is seen here in 2011 in a shelter in Clearwater, Fla.
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    White House Names Controversial Pick To Head Homelessness Office

    Dec 05, 2019
    Advocates for the homeless worry that Robert Marbut, a consultant who has been hired by many cities, will roll back the successes of arranging housing for the homeless.

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