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The City of San Francisco opened its first officially-sanctioned homeless camp this week, located outside City Hall.

Half of the 15,000 hotel rooms leased under Operation Roomkey, California’s program to provide emergency housing to the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic, are empty.

The first temporary sanctioned tent encampment opened this week in San Francisco, California, to give the homeless somewhere to go during the health crisis.

Homeless men slept crowded in a shelter hallway Tuesday after being transferred from subway stations as part of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to get them help.

Phillip and Paul Hamilton were arrested on May 1 for a physical altercation resulting from their refusal to wear masks in a Van Nuys Target.

San Francisco’s health department confirmed that it is providing drugs and alcohol to addicts to keep them from breaking quarantine.

Two men who were believed to be homeless were found dead on the New York City subway trains in less than 24 hours this past weekend.

A report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that 66% of homeless people in a San Francisco shelter tested positive for coronavirus, renewing concerns about indoor housing during the pandemic.

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti nearly broke down in tears as he delivered his annual “State of the City” address on Sunday evening in front of an empty City Council chamber.

The “vast majority” of the adult homeless shelter population in Boston who tested positive for the novel coronavirus showed no symptoms.

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s sheltering of homeless persons in recreation centers increases the risk of coronavirus’ spread, warned Susie Gilman.

San Francisco has canceled plans to move hundreds of homeless people to a large indoor space in a convention center after 70 people at a shelter tested positive for coronavirus. It will move homeless people to hotels instead — or leave them in tents.

Gerald Shiroma, a worker at the Union Rescue Mission homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles, died from coronavirus late last week, according to shelter director Rev. Andrew Bales.

The lawsuit alleges that Eric Garcetti’s plan violates CDC guidelines and would expose the community to greater risk coronavirus infection.

There are nine confirmed cases of coronavirus among the homeless population in Los Angeles as of Thursday — nearly double the total reported the day before — as the illness continues to spread, city officials said.

Los Angeles has confirmed its first cases of coronavirus among the homeless population — and a staffer who works at a temporary shelter has also tested positive for the virus.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti closed farmers’ markets in the city Monday for fear of coronavirus transmission — while continuing to move thousands of homeless people into temporary shelters where transmission is more likely.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic presented a unique opportunity to address homelessness — and that the ideal solution involved tent cities on public land outside.

Three Seattle-area homeless shelters have been closed because of coronavirus infections, and the residents inside have been “quarantined” inside the facilities for 14 days.

Officials in Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada moved hundreds of homeless people to an open-air parking lot this weekend after an individual inside a shelter tested positive for coronavirus, posing a risk to other residents.

Confusion is growing around Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti’s plan to relocate the homeless to recreation centers during the coronavirus outbreak, which contradicts Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a paper reporting that Japanese data showed that coronavirus transmission was nearly 20 times more likely indoors than outdoors.

It took coronavirus to provoke Los Angeles to move homeless people off the streets. But what the city is doing could make the pandemic worse.

CDC guidelines explicitly state that local authorities should not clear homeless encampments during “community spread” of coronavirus.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pursuing a plan to house 6,000 homeless people in recreation centers during the coronavirus pandemic. But that plan ignores Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines on the subject.

While L.A. moves thousands of homeless people to recreation centers, 30 people in homeless shelters in New York have tested positive for coronavirus.

Community leaders are demanding answers from city officials as the City of Los Angeles continues to implement a plan to move homeless people indoors into recreation centers in residential areas during the coronavirus outbreak.

Breitbart News visited two recreation centers in Los Angeles on Monday where the homeless are being moved as part of the city’s plan to keep coronavirus from spreading among that population.

California’s coronavirus policy has reached a point of contradiction: the state is releasing inmates from its jails to prevent the spread of coronavirus in close quarters, while at the same time moving homeless people to recreation centers in residential areas.

Some homeless people are reportedly skeptical of a new plan by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to relocate them to recreation centers in residential communities to contain the coronavirus pandemic, fearful they will be less safe in shelters.