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USA Today
Coronavirus threatens people living in shelters. Here's how an agency rushed to save them.
April 30, 2020
Columbus House typically bustles with staff doing laundry and cleaning beds as volunteers prepare and plan meals for people who are homeless. When people in need arrived at the shelter in the late afternoon looking for dinner and a place to spend the night, they’d find food and a bed.
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New Haven Register
New Haven to offer services to homeless living in encampments during coronavirus pandemic
April 29, 2020
The city is creating a drop-in resource center for homeless individuals who would rather stay outdoors at encampments than enter a shelter during the pandemic.
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New Haven Independent
Pop-Up Covid-19 Help Tent Planned For Hardcore Homeless
April 28, 2020
Early next week an “open-air resource center” — otherwise known as a tent — is scheduled to pop up in Blake Field opposite the East Rock Community Magnet School, not far from homeless encampments in the woods near the Willow Street I-91 off-ramps.
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Liberty Bank Foundation
Liberty Bank Team Announces Additional $100,000 to Support Local Community Partners in COVID-19 Response
April 27, 2020
Building on their first round of $100,000 in emergency grants they approved in April for ten local hospitals, Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut today announced that through their charitable foundation they will be providing an additional $100,000 in funding to support several other community organizations in their COVID-19 response.
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Yale Daily News
UP CLOSE: COVID-19, homelessness and New Haven’s response
April 21, 2020
“What am I supposed to do?” asked a man at a March 19 COVID-19 press conference on the steps of City Hall. He was one of a half-dozen homeless individuals who interrupted Mayor Justin Elicker’s daily briefing.
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CIty Lab
No Easy Fixes as Covid-19 Hits Homeless Shelters
April 17, 2020
On Good Friday, Tyree Leslie traded a bunk bed in Multi-Service Center South, San Francisco’s largest homeless shelter, for a bed in a room lined with pale yellow wallpaper in the city’s historic Hotel Whitcomb. He gets three meals a day, his own bathroom, and the chance to truly shelter in place — away from the coronavirus that tore through the shelter he’s been staying in since the winter. “It makes a difference,” he says. “I’m just glad to be indoors.”
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myrecordjournal.com
Wallingford shelter moves guests to Meriden hotel as donations come in
April 14, 2020
The emergency shelter has moved its clients to a Meriden hotel, but local residents have not forgotten about them. Columbus House, the New Haven-based nonprofit that operates the Wallingford Emergency Shelter, recently moved nine guests from the shelter…
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Patch
Fairfield U. Responds to Community Needs Amid Health Crisis
April 4, 2020
"It's a significant amount of food," Gornicki said. "She was so moved, she just broke down and cried."
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New Haven Independent
Volunteers Sew 400+ Masks
April 2, 2020
MakeHaven volunteers have sewn 402 face masks for nonprofits and the Yale New Haven Hospital. Regina Bohn has made almost half of them.
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Middletown Press
Coronavirus challenge: Move 60 percent of homeless into hotels
April 1, 2020
In a push to help cities and towns, the state Department of Housing is looking to move 60 percent of the state’s homeless shelter population into hotels and permanent housing to help depopulate shelters and limit the spread of the coronavirus.
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