PIH connects patients with housing support during pandemic Posted on Feb 3, 2021 Activists and tenants protest evictions in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood before the COVID-19 pandemic. In many parts of the country, COVID-19 has only exacerbated the ongoing eviction crisis for poor and working class people. Photo by Zack DeClerck / PIH. A bus stop. A park bench. A subway car. For the unhoused, shelter is found in many places—but safety remains elusive. “The lives of homeless people are incredibly public,” says Dr. Evan Lyon, a senior technical advisor with PIH’s U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit. “To be homeless means you’re circulating a lot. You have to go from this place to that place. Maybe panhandle, maybe go to the library, maybe sleep on a train overnight.”