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Will NIMBYs Stop Former Smuggler’s Inn From Becoming Affordable Housing?

Fresno County, RH Community Builders, and UPholdings want to acquire and rehabilitate the Hotel Fresno (formerly the Smuggler's Inn) on Blackstone and Dakota avenues to provide assistance to homeless people. That's the short-term goal. The long-term goal is to provide affordable housing for decades into the future. The county hosted...

Amazon's Homeless Shelter Faces Seattle Crisis, Criticism

SEATTLE — A homeless shelter built on Amazon’s perfectly manicured urban Seattle campus is a major civic contribution that pushes the company to face the crisis and criticism in the hometown it has rapidly transformed. Believed to be the first homeless shelter built inside a corporate office building, Amazon’s partnership...

Massive Effort to Get Los Angeles Homeless Into Hotels

LOS ANGELES — To curb the coronavirus spread, Los Angeles has embarked on a massive effort to bring thousands of homeless people off the streets and into hotels to protect them and others from infection. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that money from the federal government would help...

Influencers in LA Are Taking a 'Hygiene Ice Cream Truck' to Skid Row's Homeless to Prevent Coronavirus Spread

[aggregation-styles] Insider On Sunday, a white van with the word "Cult" written on its side in pink chalk pulled up to a trash-covered embankment in Skid Row, a neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles known for its condensed population of the county's nearly 60,000 homeless individuals. Underneath the word "Cult" was...

Few Sheltered as California Aims to Help Homeless Amid Virus

SAN FRANCISCO — Homeless outreach workers are passing out hand sanitizer, checking temperatures and pleading with people not to crowd together. But a week after Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged thousands of hotel rooms to help the homeless survive the coronavirus pandemic, most of those rooms sit empty. For most of...

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