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Homeless in RI: Daily overnight Warming Center opens TODAY at MLK Center in Newport
Photo: Taken fall, 2022, at Newport Visitors Center Beginning TODAY, Tuesday, January 16th, an overnight warming center will be available nightly at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center. The Warming Center is a multi-agency collaboration. Formalizing the Martin Luther King Community Center’s efforts at providing warming opportunities for the community, St. John’s Church…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: $3.3 Million for 45+ pop-up Pallet Shelter Village set for state land in Smith Hill
A long wanted Pallet Shelter village is headed for Rhode Island. From the time when the RI State House saw an encampment on its courtyard, and a sample unit was set up by a homeless advocate group. In other states, shelters like this have been put up, to mixed, but usually positive results. Location is…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Updates. Hope from inside a tent. New HUD funding. ’23 accomplishments.
We continue our series of articles reporting on various issues and developments on homelessness in Rhode Island. Street Sights – RI’s homeless magazine and resource guide Janice Luongo produces a regular, monthly publication targeted to the homeless population in Rhode Island. The opening story, here, by James Logan, is written by a man who is…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Woonsocket program 2nd RI site for homeless with acute illness
Second Medical Respite site, in Woonsocket, will serve people with acute illnesses who are experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness The Rhode Island Executive Office of Health & Human Services (EOHHS) announced the expansion of its Medical Respite program, aimed at addressing the needs of Rhode Islanders who are experiencing housing insecurity or homelessness who have acute injuries…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: (UPDATED) HUD report uses year old data; Dignity Bus; encampments, CES changes
Dignity Bus program, Woonsocket (Updated) Set to open on Monday, due to the storm, the Community Care Alliance took people in to the one floor emergency shelter on Social Street, The Serenity Center – and the Dignity Bus is set to open Tuesday, weather permitting. (Updated) Tuesday additional resources for homeless and housing support will…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: “A season in my life”. Pallet Shelters ordered. MA office use. Slow Dignity Bus
homeless in RI dec 2023
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Operation Stand Down opens historic Woonsocket home for female veterans
Woonsocket home for homeless female veterans by operation stand down ri
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Updates at 43 degrees, with winter 45 days away
Update from Rhode Island Housing: RI Housing has hired a new communications liaison – Patti Doyle. Doyle provided this update to RINewsToday: Pallet Shelters: “We have not confirmed a location for the pallet shelters as of this writing. We are looking at sites in both Providence and Pawtucket. The Newport Avenue site is not being…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: State’s new strategy. Shelters, housing, prevention, expansion, collaboration
Alongside faith and community leaders, state issues call to action for continued partnership and progress in preventing and addressing homelessness. Governor Dan McKee and Housing Secretary Stefan Pryor today outlined Rhode Island’s strategy for addressing homelessness through expanded shelter options and other services as winter approaches. Anchored around prevention, expansion and collaboration, the state’s strategy already…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: State shelter/housing plan for winter coming TODAY. Woonsocket discord.
RINewsToday has learned that the state’s Housing Department will release its plan TODAY – this morning – to address homelessness for the winter months. The plan will address emergency shelter and other housing options. The announcement will be made with partners, including religious groups. Some churches and temples tried to do emergency shelters a few…
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