homelessness

With colder nights on the horizon, area warming shelters are preparing to open under COVID-19 restrictions. The Windham Region No Freeze Project will reopen for the season on Nov. 1. The shelter usually warms 30 to 40 people a night. However, this year, the team has to worry about protecting people from the elements and from COVID-19. With dividers in…

Shelters will have to take extra COVID-19 precautions as the weather turns colder and they see more homless people moving indoors.

There were 2,000 people in homeless shelters at the beginning of the pandemic, but COVID-19 forced shelters to reduce capacity and use hotel rooms to socially distance. But advocates are looking for more permanent solutions.   “At this current point in time, I literally live under the bridge going from Hartford to East Hartford,” Amber Otero said. NBC Connecticut met...

Homeless advocates marched up to the Mayor Bill de Blasio’s home on Sunday to protest the city’s decision to remove some 300 people living in hotels configured for temporary housing. As a way to contain the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless population in the city, de Blasio used hotels — which were not holding almost any guests during the…

Advocates estimate 20 million Americans spend more than 30% of income on rent and are likely to experience homelessness. They predict numbers will rise during the pandemic.

You’ve seen them on the street corner with their signs begging for money. But have you wondered what happens when you drive away or what happened to Connecticut’s homeless population since the pandemic hit? “People think that this is easy. Being homeless stinks. And I have no place to sleep. I sleep under a bridge with a couple mattresses...

Connecticut’s homeless population is finding new challenges with finding food during the pandemic. NBC CT’s Christine Stuart reports on their growing concerns.

A Place at the Table is a nonprofit restaurant that serves people who can’t afford to pay the cost of their meal side-by-side with those who can. The Raleigh, N.C.-based restaurant is owned by Maggie Kane, who wanted to create a place where the homeless can eat a meal with dignity.

A homeless man who risked his life to save the life of a D.C. police officer was reunited with his family this week after they spotted him on TV. They hadn’t seen him in eight years and had thought he was dead.  John Burrows jumped into action when he saw another homeless man attacking a police officer in downtown...

Advocates in the fight against homelessness jumped into action in March when they realized how COVID-19 could easily spread through Connecticut’s homeless shelters.   Now the temporary housing for those facing housing insecurity is set to expire at the end of this month, leaving advocates concerned.   Kelly Fitzgerald, director of the Coordinated Access Network for the United Way of Greater...

The temporary housing for those facing housing insecurity is set to expire at the end of this month, leaving advocates concerned.

A Hartford police officer who has made it his mission to help the city’s homeless during his career, is going the extra mile to make sure they are cared for during the coronavirus pandemic.

During this pandemic, with social distancing guidelines in place it’s been harder than ever for the homeless to find shelter and get much-needed resources. But there is a police officer in Hartford who has been helping the homeless in Hartford for years. “Instead of them coming to me, I got to them and I try to boost their morale….every...

The Waterbury Hospitality Center has collected approximately a year’s worth of donations following a damaging fire. The center is still in need of furniture for visitors.

At City College of San Francisco, a dozen or so students have formed a community, living off the grid in solar-powered camper vans at the edge of campus, building and maintaining their tiny homes together. Faced with some of the highest rent in the world, some say it’s a financial decision to emerge from school with a small savings, rather...

In the shadow of Los Angeles’ world-famous Hollywood sign sits the newest LA landmark: piles of uncollected, rat-infested garbage, much of it piling up near homeless encampments. Even though Mayor Eric Garcetti pledged an additional $6 million per year last June to improve trash pick-up around encampments in Hollywood and across the entire city, the problem in some areas appears…

The federal government is reporting a 2.7% increase in the nation’s homeless population driven by a spike in California, according to an annual count that took place in January 2019.

A man was found dead outside Los Angeles City Hall early Wednesday, likely the 963rd homeless person to die on the streets of LA County in 2019, officials said. “It really hits home when one of those human beings passes away in front of our workplace,” LA City Attorney Mike Feuer told reporters. Feuer was about to discuss his concerns…

On any given day, there are roughly 3,300 people experiencing homelessness in our state.  It’s a number that experts say is underestimated, and a problem that may be hard to see if you live outside the city. NBC Connecticut found three people who know the struggle of rural homelessness intimately well. These are their stories. Homelessness Angela May became...