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UNMPD adapts to pandemic and less active campus March 08, 2021 It has been nearly a year since the majority of students and employees of The University of New Mexico have transitioned to remote learning and work due to COVID-19. However, some units — like Facilities Management and Residence Life — have returned to campus to provide essential service as UNM engages in a hybrid learning model. One unit that never left the campus is the UNM Police Department (UNMPD). Safety has been a pr...

Newark unveils homeless shelter made from converted shipping containers Updated Mar 09, 2021; Posted Mar 08, 2021 Newark Hope Village, an innovative sheltering program that uses shipping containers to house residents at-risk or without addresses. Monday, March 8, 2021. Newark, N.J. USA (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media) Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Newark Homelessness Czar Sakinah Hoyte held back tears as she unvield a lot filled with seven converted sh...

N.J. city unveils homeless shelter made from converted shipping containers Updated Mar 08, 2021; Posted Mar 08, 2021 Newark Hope Village, an innovative sheltering program that uses shipping containers to house residents at-risk or without addresses. Monday, March 8, 2021. Newark, N.J. USA (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media) Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Newark Homelessness Czar Sakinah Hoyte held back tears as she unvield a lot filled with seven converted...

Credit: Capri23auto from Pixabay File photo New Jersey’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund could face what some advocates say is another raid on its dedicated fund in the coming fiscal year if Gov. Phil Murphy’s budget is adopted as drafted by lawmakers. Administration officials say they do not consider the proposed use of $20 million from the fund for the NJ Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency’s (HMFA) Down Payment Assistance program as a raid. That program provides a $10,000 interest-free f...

The facility of seven containers will shelter 24 homeless individuals from the Penn Station corridor. The containers have been converted into code-compliant modular residences and consist of dorm-style rooms, as well as two utility structures with private shower rooms and a multipurpose structure. The rooms have simple furnishings, including a heater, bunk beds for extra storage, and a small dresser. Funding is being provided by the CARES Act, the Essex County Division of Community Action throu...

Three shelters will be open overnight to help anyone in need.

WHYY By On March 5, 2021, at her warming center in the Yorkship Family School gym, Tawanda Jones, right, tries to convince a patron known as Sarah Ann to allow Jones to help her rent a room at a boarding house. Sarah Ann had told Jones that if there was nowhere else to go that night, she would sleep in Camdens Evergreen Cemetery. (Photo by April Saul for WHYY) The woman they call “Wawa” should have seen it coming. Tawanda Jones should have known that after housing up to 70 homeless individ...

Three shelters will be open overnight to help anyone in need.

Meet the volunteers who launched a plan to feed homeless people in N.J. as pandemic hit Updated Mar 01, 2021; Posted Mar 01, 2021 A lunch guest of Care and Share Meals at the Trinity First Hope Center in Millville helps himself to some to-go selections, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.Al Amrhein | For NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Cindi Cooke remembers the day last March when Gov. Phil Murphy announced his statewide stay-at-home order and closed all non-essential businesses. “I received that very ...

Three shelters will be open overnight in Erie County to help those in need.