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Local providers and organizers are scrambling to keep a pop-up emergency shelter open during freezing temperatures, while they wait on the city to fund one.
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St. Louis has set aside more than $43 million in federal funding for homeless services and housing support. Advocates hope to see progress before deadly winter weather arrives.
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All 50 of the units in the tiny home village will be full as of this week, but homeless advocates say the federal coronavirus relief money could have been stretched further to help more St. Louisans in need.
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Propelled by the freezing weather this month, a group of St. Louis nonprofits worked together to make additional room for around 250 people in the past two weeks.
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For months, a small group of people has occupied about a dozen tents along the McGuire Moving & Storage building, a vacant warehouse north of downtown St. Louis. But late last week, a notice to vacate appeared on the side of the building, informing encampment residents to leave the private property by Monday morning.
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Though the city of St. Louis has added hundreds of new beds this year, outreach organizations are worried about the possibility of viral spread within emergency homeless shelters. With the first day of winter less than seven weeks away, these groups are scrambling to rewrite existing shelter procedures in an effort to keep the virus at bay.
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St. Louis is preparing 186 more beds across the city for people who are homeless during the coldest months of the year.Mayor Lyda Krewson announced…
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When Akash Munshi and other Pride St. Louis board members saw the forecast of below-zero temperatures last week, they started planning.Within two hours of…
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The city of St. Louis plans to add more beds to its Biddle homeless shelter, north of downtown, starting on Monday.The shelter currently has room for 100…
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For a group of homeless people who've been living in tents on a downtown St. Louis sidewalk, it's the end of the road. Thursday was the deadline imposed…