Homelessness

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.

Homeless veterans in St. Louis will soon have a place to get back on their feet. Officials held a ceremonial groundbreaking Friday on the first Veterans Community Project village in St. Louis.

On her good days, 51-year-old Sharon Morrow is out the door pretty early, helping to get food and water to homeless St. Louisans. And for Morrow, who is disabled and also a breast cancer survivor, April 14, 2019, started out as one of those days where she felt healthy enough to do the work. But as St. Louis police officers began arresting a man outside City Hall that afternoon, she started filming. Soon, Morrow herself would be arrested — and in a lawsuit filed last Friday, the ACLU of Missouri alleges it was retaliation for her First Amendment activities.

Christine Rudolph woke up last week to an eviction notice taped on her front door. Three days later, she and her 15-year-old daughter were forced to leave…

Where do you self-quarantine if you don’t have a home? Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines for social distancing to…

The St. Louis Area Regional Commission on Homelessness found homes for hundreds of veterans this year. Now, the local homeless agencies that comprise the…

Jennings school students who are homeless and need a ride to school are arriving the way many suburban kids do: by minivan.The small north St. Louis…

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…

With temperatures expected to climb into the 90s this weekend, volunteers are stepping in to care for the city’s homeless population.People who live on…

There’s a late-winter chill in the house. A space heater is trying to do the work of a busted furnace. Angelina rubs the sleep out of her eyes as her mom…