Attorneys decry cleanups of homeless encampments during pandemic Benjamin Oreskes © (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Sanitation workers Jesus Sanchez, left, and Javier Villareal check a homeless encampment for hazardous materials in 2019. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged communities, public health experts worried about the deadly consequences for homeless people sleeping on the streets.
It s a group rife with other health problems that could make it especially susceptible to the easily transmissible coronavirus. In the spring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautioned against disruptions such as clearing encampments, which could increase the potential for spreading the disease.
LA Is Spending $130,000 Per Tiny Home To Shelter Its Homeless
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Unless last-minute Congressional negotiations to pass a new COVID relief bill succeed, more than 1 million Californians will lose their unemployment benefits at the end of this month.
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are currently debating a bipartisan bill that would extend two federal unemployment programs Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) into mid-April. Created in the spring by the federal CARES Act, both programs are set to expire on Dec. 26.
While policy experts are hopeful that relief will arrive soon, unemployment recipients say the uncertainty is causing profound stress. To be coming to what could be the end of my benefits just feels like the final nail in the coffin, said Koreatown resident Riordan Tenney.
Tallahassee leaders urge Gov. DeSantis to reinstate eviction moratorium
Leaders support another eviction moratorium
The families now dealing with evictions say they don t want to see others go through that pain.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â The families now dealing with evictions say they don t want to see others go through that pain.
Add to that the housing advocates fearing an influx in evictions could overwhelm existing resources. Those concerns are now leading to requests for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to reinstate an eviction moratorium.
Titus Stallworth says his biggest fear is having to sleep in his car. Stallworth is one of the 438 people evicted in Leon County in November. In between homes, he s living with his sister. However, there s a chance that she could be evicted as well.
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In other cities, 64-square-foot aluminum and composite sheds are being used as quick and inexpensive emergency shelter for homeless people.
Not in Los Angeles. Here, plans to employ the minimalist structures, known as “tiny homes,” have blossomed into expensive development projects with access roads, underground utilities and concrete foundations and commensurate planning delays.
At the city’s first tiny home village, scheduled to open in January, each of the 39 closet-sized homes is costing $130,000, about 10 times what some other cities are spending. Five more villages are planned to open later.
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the program in March, signaling that the concept of sheltering people in tiny homes, long neglected in Los Angeles, had emerged as a leading strategy in the city’s response to a federal lawsuit alleging it has done too little to get homeless people off the streets.
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