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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass began her first day in office Monday by declaring a state of emergency to grapple with the city's out-of-control homeless crisis, bidding to move swiftly to get thousands of unhoused people off her city's streets. Bass called the declaration “a sea change in how the city tackles homelessness,” making good on a campaign pledge to call the emergency the day she took power. The issue dominated her mayoral race against billionaire developer Rick Caruso an...

Some SUNY Broome students, faculty and supporters take to sleeping under the stars to bring awareness to homelessness in the region.

A city program is expanding with federal dollars after successfully housing and supporting hundreds of people experiencing homelessness

NORRISTOWN — Montgomery County health officials continued their efforts to vaccinate vulnerable members of the community this week with visits by a mobile vaccine unit to Pottstown and Norristown.

What Are We Doing to Fix Hawai‘i’s Homeless Crisis? The Aloha State now has the highest number of homeless per capita in the nation. What are we doing to help the individuals and families living on the streets? April 22, 2015   In January, homeless service providers counted more than 400 people living in this encampment in Kaka‘ako, near the Children’s Discovery Center. Photo: Odeelo Dayondon     April Fuiava was working at the front desk of a Waikīkī Hotel, her husband was a day ...

Updated on February 18, 2021 at 11:41 pm NBC Universal, Inc. With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to grip the city, a senior leader at the Boston Public Health Commission is carrying out her duties remotely from more than 5,000 miles away. The NBC10 Investigators have learned the commission’s medical director, Dr. Jennifer Lo, relocated with her family to Hawaii in November 2020. Download our mobile app for iOS to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Lo remained in her posit...

Leadership to the mayors homeless programs, homeless initiatives. >> working with the coalition for the homeless we have been coordinating with our agencies that have been working with the homeless outreach teams and shelters. the majority of the homeless are off of the streets and are in area shelters. we weve worked closely with store hope as well as salvation army who have around 500 more homeless individuals than normal in their shelters. homeless individuals have been going to their regular...

Being a veteran yourself, now in congress, how do you feel? >> i think we could be doing so much better, rachel. i do think were going better for iraq and afghanistan than we did for vietnam veterans, but that was a pretty low bar. we have over 2 million veterans and were not live willing up to the promises weve made of them. we can do better. were not providing the jobs that we need to give to them. were not helping them with housing, sequestration is going to cut homeless programs. i think wev...

People have been bemoaning the effects, l.a. specifically, how it may affect l.a.x., how widespread are the concerns in los angeles, in the southland? >> well, the concerns are very widespread. i think the truth is, as you all have been reporting, is that we dont know what the impact is. l.a. is looking at a hit of about $is 15 million, which is a hit they could probably manage during normal times, but as you know theyve been flirting with fiscal insolvency, so money is rately tight. theyre look...

Technically enough money to build 145,000 homes, at $200,000 apiece. >> it might make more sense to give them a check and let them get housing on their own or get mental health benefits but the way it is now when you have the different government agencies administering the same program, you have government waste. >> given the array of the socio-pathologies, and hardships and circumstances that lead to and perpetuate homelessness, some say an overlapping multiagency approach is precisely what is ...