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“A lot of people have been getting into the hobby because of COVID-19. Everyone’s stuck at home watching TikToks,” vendor Hebreb Morales said. Sneaker Con was just one of several events to welcome back big crowds since COVID-19 cases started to drop. Dallas County averaged 156 daily cases this week, a decrease from last week when the county averaged 179 cases per day. Dr. Mark Casanova, immediate past president of the Dallas County Medical Society, said events can mark an encouraging return to pre-COVID life.   “If it’s a Rangers game, if it’s an in-person family gathering, or j...

Even so, doctors say having some protection is better than none. "If you are compromised, make sure you're vaccinated because the safety profile is excellent. Make sure the people around you are vaccinated and continue to use masks and social distancing until we have full data that can show us how protected compromised people are after vaccination," Behre said. Kyle Killough, of North Richland Hills, heeds the advice. He's a double lung transplant recipient and takes immunosuppressants so his body doesn't reject his new lungs. He's fully vaccinated but still takes no chances. "It was a little...

Print U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s order to Los Angeles officials to sweep homeless people off skid row into shelters or housing is grounded in his conviction that a wrongheaded focus on creating permanent housing has perpetuated racism, spread encampments and caused the avoidable deaths of Black people. But the complexities of the lives of homeless people on skid row suggest that shelters may be, at best, an incomplete and unwelcome solution to the homelessness that has persisted in the 50-block district downtown for more than 50 years. “They’re putting the smallest Band-Aid ...

For years, Shawn Pleasants did nothing but rise up. He was high school valedictorian, went to Yale, landed banking jobs on Wall Street, started his own business. And then, for years, he did nothing but fall. Lost his business, his home, the car he was living in, and landed on the streets of Los Angeles. Advertisement For about six years, home for him and his common-law husband was a lean-to near 7th and Hobart in Koreatown. And like a lot of L.A.’s sizable homeless population, Pleasants was addicted to methamphetamine, a cheap and abundantly available drug. “It always felt to me like I’...

SDS Supportive Housing Fund Expands Housing for the Homeless with Fourth Project in South LA $10.7 Million in Private Equity Funding Will Develop 60 Units of Permanent Supportive Housing News provided by Share this article LOS ANGELES, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The recently launched SDS Supportive Housing Fund  (SHF or Fund)— a first-of-its-kind private-equity impact fund that finances new, financially-sustainable permanent supportive housing (PSH) for individuals experiencing homelessness – today announced it has closed $10.3 million in funding to develop new housing in South Los A...