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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Las Vegas, a city that’s globally known for its luxe hotel industry and overheated rental market, is currently corralling some homeless people into a concrete parking lot, where they’ll sleep out part of the coronavirus pandemic in…

Officials are facing criticism for using a Las Vegas parking lot as a temporary shelter after a facility was closed when a homeless man tested positive for COVID-19 last week.Officials from Las Vegas and Clark County opened the temporary shelter at an event site lot a few miles north of…

By 8 a.m. on Wednesday, the line outside St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church in New York City stretched around the block. But this wasn't any ordinary morning. Fixed-income residents like 66-year-old Patricia Sylvester faced an agonizing choice -- weighing the risk of catching the coronavirus or going…

Ashley Baca is one of the many American workers whose income has dried up thanks to the coronavirus-caused economic downturn. As a transport driver for special needs medical clients in Sioux City, Iowa, she's seen her rides disappear throughout the month of March as many of her clients are at…

There’s a small silver lining in hotels, arenas and convention centers recently closing over the coronavirus: Those places are now being converted into temporary shelters for homeless people. From California to Kentucky, city and state officials are taking actions to temporarily shelter people in spaces that only a few weeks…

Los Angeles (AFP) - Officials in California are scrambling to protect the state's huge homeless population from COVID-19 amid warnings that should the virus spread within that community it could prove impossible to contain."I think there's considerable fear and anxiety, especially for those of us who have a deep caring…

Graphic: Elena Scotti (Photos: Getty Images)Sick DaysWelcome to Sick Days, a collection of stories from readers on how the current covid-19 health crisis is changing the way they work and the futures they can expect in these uncertain times.This is the first edition of Sick Days, a new series documenting…

(Bloomberg) -- California lawmakers approved an emergency $500 million spending package to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.The money will be used to lease two hospitals, finance equipment and assist clinics, nursing homes and other facilities. Some of the funds will pay for cleaning daycare centers so they can remain open…

A few weeks ago, David Perez’s brother handed him a package of face masks and warnings about a new coronavirus spreading around the United States. Perez had heard about Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, but he wasn’t sure how serious it was, so he started doing some research.…