MORGANTOWN -- With temperatures dipping below freezing and winter rapidly approaching, various community partners have come together to open a warming shelter. The shelter, located in the Hazel House of Hope, on Scott Avenue, is open any time the temperature drops below 40 ...
Homeless veterans, mentally disabled or traumatized as a result of their service, and their advocates waged a long legal battle to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to stop using parts of the sprawling VA campus in West L.A. for non-veteran enterprises and return to the campus to the ...
by Diane Nilan At an outdoor eatery near the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison, I witnessed a woman, whom I suspect lacked a place to live, respectfully ask diners for money. A few wordlessly complied, handing her a couple bucks. I was disturbed by this scene, as were others at nearby ...
Unstable housing is a health care issue In the July 4 edition, Joanna DiStefano’s guest essay on “Housing crisis needs a federal solution” hit home for me as a physician who has encountered numerous homeless patients or those with unstable housing. Multiple studies have shown that ...
by Donald Whitehead and Joel Segal On any given night in the United States, upward of a half-million people are homeless. And that doesn’t include the millions of others who are living hand-to-mouth in hotels, or doubled up with family members or acquaintances, in often highly ...
Yesterday, we discussed how downtown Morgantown turns into the Wild West after dark. The rough and tumble nature of the bar patrons and the frequency of violence breaking out make many locals wary of visiting High Street and its offshoots after the sun sets. But there are those who avoid ...