What’s Happening
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In Ohio, Hamilton county (Cincinnati is in Hamilton county) is ponying up $1M to shelter homeless people in hotels.
City of Portland, Maine has hotels, we hear.
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12 hours ago ·
City of Portland, Maine is right here: Walk to a park near your home.
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13 hours ago ·
Rent freeze for business and residential renters is not unreasonable, City of Portland, Maine. And as The Bangor Daily News notes, other cities are already doing it.
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13 hours ago ·
This is good, healthcare workers need safe shelter, but homeless Portlanders need safe shelter too. And the City of Portland, Maine closed the Oxford Street Shelter and family shelter to people newly in need.
Other cities are sheltering homeless people hin otel rooms, where quarantines can be maintained, and where transmission of the coronavirus can be mitigated.
Portland has hotel rooms, and Governor Janet Mills has shut down lodging operations (running hotels) except for, among other other needs, sheltering homeless people.
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1 day ago ·
New Haven, CT is working with hotel owners to shelter that city's homeless and to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
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2 days ago ·
Kansas City, MO is paying to place homeless people in hotel rooms to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
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2 days ago ·
Hotels in Minneapolis/Saint Paul have started sheltering homeless people "in order to remove them from their previous congregate living settings where the spread of COVID-19 would have been more likely."
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2 days ago ·
In Washington state, King county, home to Seattle, is moving homeless people from shelters to hotel rooms.
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2 days ago ·
Virginia Beach is providing hotel rooms for homeless people to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
City of Portland, Maine has hotel rooms. We could do something similar here, couldn't we, Mayor Kate Snyder, Portland Maine?
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3 days ago ·
Preble Street opened the shelter at USM Friday.
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3 days ago ·