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Another Day in Paradise USA
There are a lot of Americans encouraging folks to stay at home. Even Governors and Mayors ordering people to Stay at Home. All good and yet there are some discrepancies here.
During the AIDS epidemic crisis, sick folks without homes were housed not in shelters but in real homes.
“Since 1985, the city has provided housing aid to low-income people with HIV-related illness, through the HIV/AIDS Service Administration, or HASA.
“Shelly Nortz, deputy executive director for policy at the Coalition for the Homeless, said that both public health crises underscore the need for securing safe, isolated housing for those at risk of illness.”
https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/cast-adrift-by-the-virus-the-newly-homeless-seek-a-refuge.html
If everyone is supposed to be Safe at Home, then why @GavinNewsom
are we keeping 105,000+ of the 108,000 Californians on streets, in cars, in homeless shelters WHERE THEY ARE NOT SAFE and the corona virus is spreading. People without homes include seniors 50-80+. How come a very few cities are people are housing folks in EMPTY hotels like in Oakland and San Diego but most are NOT in many cities in California like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Monterey, San Jose, Sacramento?
And why are 1/2 million Americans STILL on streets, in cars, parking lots (Las Vegas has many empty hotel rooms), fairgrounds (Carmel and Monterey home owners have many empty homes and campers), in homeless shelters WHERE THEY ARE NOT SAFE including 50% who are seniors 50-80+ instead of in EMPTY hotels like in Oakland, CA, New Orleans (where local churches, agencies and Hilton Garden Inns are housing people in hotels for a month and providing food) and Connecticut (where the Governor signed an Executive Order to do so)?
Why are a few hospitals providing housing for some patients?
Housing IS Healthcare and the most powerful medicine, according to ER Doctor Margot Kushel in San Francisco.
Also, @KellyMDoran
"The health-care system sort of bears witness to the fact that the housing crisis is slowly but surely killing people"
#HousingisHealthcare#COVID19 teaches that we are out of time #HousingIsAHumanRight
https://endhomelessness.org/resource/estimated-emergency-and-observational-quarantine-bed-need-for-the-us-homeless-population-related-to-covid-19-exposure-by-county-projected-hospitalizations-intensive-care-units-and-mortality/
Homeless individuals infected by COVID-19 are projected to be:
2x as likely to be hospitalized
2-4x as likely to require critical care
2-3x as likely to die than the general population
Read the report mentioned in today's #COVIDwebinar: