We, the housed, worried about our jobs, food, gas, family, friends, and our future during the pandemic. The homeless did not get a chance to think about any of that.
Food and Nutrition
The pandemic challenged child nutrition leaders to rethink strategies for getting school meals to those in need.
This story is part of a larger project, Troubled Water: The Salton Sea Project, led by Angela Chen in where she examines the health and environmental risks linked to the decline of the Salton Sea.
Over the past five years, hundreds of California drinking water systems have suffered damage or destruction amid the state’s increasingly intense climate-driven wildfires.
In Santa Clara County, homeless deaths are skyrocketing while the homeless population has not substantially changed.
The colonias of south Texas have been devastated by the pandemic, a crisis made worse by poverty and limited access to health care.
To get through the crises generated by the pandemic and the holiday season, millions of unemployed or part-time workers are turning to food banks run by government agencies or charitable organizations.
A lack of coordination leaves many transition-age youth homeless, hungry, and alone.
“If we really cared, we would be getting the housing,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF. “Everything else follows.”
Coastal Watershed Council leader on Santa Cruz’s homeless impacts.