homelessness ‘Love Sinks' Help Unhoused People Stay Safe From COVID The pandemic closed many public spaces like libraries where homeless people could wash their hands, a way to stay safe and reduce the spread of germs. So Love Beyond Walls began distributing portable sinks across 56 cities and 3 countries. Hear from Terence Lester, the group’s founder.
Tiny Homes Tiny Homes Are Offering Safety and Dignity to Homeless in California In California, the Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission is partnering with the city of Los Angeles to open tiny homes to people struggling with homelessness. Founder and CEO Ken Craft joined NBCLX to explain how tiny homes help restore dignity, safety and a sense of autonomy to its residents.
LX Presents LX Presents: The Price of Being Poor The pandemic has put a spotlight on how close many Americans are living to the edge of poverty — and how few resources are available to those who are struggling with food and housing insecurity. In this special presentation, NBCLX takes a closer look at our country’s failing social safety net and what it takes to survive in America.
homelessness Vaccinating Homeless Populations Adds Challenges to Stopping the Spread of COVID-19 Getting COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of all Americans is hard enough. But vaccinating homeless communities poses additional challenges that are even trickier to overcome. They include getting homeless people to mass vaccination sites or bringing the vaccines to the streets, as well as overcoming their mistrust of health officials. Ben Oreskes, a reporter with the Los Angeles Times, joined...
housing insecurity Inside an LA Housing Project That Is Helping Trans People Escape Homelessness Homelessness is a crisis among young people in the LGBTQ community. The problem is even more pronounced among transgender people — about a third living in the U.S. become homeless at some point in their lives. Casa de Zulma is the first publicly-funded home for trans people trying to get out of homelessness. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories...
homelessness An L.A. Program That Kobe Bryant Backed Is Giving Stable Homes to the Homeless and Mentally Ill An L.A. program called Step Up on Second is driven by the philosophy that stable housing is the first step to changing the lives of people struggling with chronic homelessness and mental illness. The program, which was supported by Kobe Bryant before his death, operates a motel-turned-shelter that offers full studio apartments to the people it serves. Among those helped...
connections Connections: Meet Scott and Daniel, Two Men Whose Hardships Gave Their Lives Purpose Scott Sowle and Daniel Buenaventura may have little in common at first glance. Sowle is an advocate for people experiencing homelessness and Buenaventura is a college student studying nursing. But the two men are linked by a chance encounter and a common thread that runs through their lives. Both have turned their greatest grief and hardship into inspiration to spend...
skid row carnival of love A ‘Carnival of Love' for the Homeless on L.A.'s Skid Row Before the pandemic, an annual charity event on L.A.’s Skid Row founded by “Jane the Virgin” actor Justin Baldoni gave people affected by homelessness an opportunity to enjoy some essential services and small luxuries that many of us take for granted. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories takes us to the Carnival of Love.
purpose over profit A Raleigh Restaurant that Welcomes the Homeless 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.
homelessness Garbage Piles Up Near Homeless Encampments, Making City of Angels a City of Trash Uncollected trash, especially near homeless encampments remains a big problem, prompting worries about another disease epidemic.
