Surging coronavirus cases, plummeting temperatures challenge shelters Share Updated: 1:01 PM EST Dec 27, 2020 By GILLIAN FLACCUS and MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press
Surging coronavirus cases, plummeting temperatures challenge shelters Share Updated: 1:01 PM EST Dec 27, 2020
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Show Transcript We re here in Portland, right by downtown by the river. Uh, Camp three, CPO. It s called, uh, account for a coronavirus around this time right now for homeless. It s pretty pretty amazing. They re bringing in little tiny houses for everybody. Tiny houses or everybody s busy running around, uh, moving all their stuff, uh, getting everything ready. We have a really robust winter shelter system, a severe weather system, and in any other year we have, ah, theory that we don t want anyone who needs to come inside to be out in the cold. It makes it so much more difficult when you can t have big spaces with a lot of people in them ready with winte