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Joe Ward-Wallace delivers a takeout order at South LA Cafe on March 28. (Los Angeles Times)To the editor: I appreciate the spotlight on the small businesses in South Los Angeles enduring economic hardship because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I am inspired daily by the resilience and dedication of these businesses…

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By Nathan Frandino, Shannon Stapleton, Katie Paul and Stephen NellisSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The coronavirus crisis is beginning to do something the city of San Francisco has been unable to accomplish for years - move homeless people off the streets and into shelters, including some of the city's now-empty hotels.Faced…

Social distancing and self-isolation have quickly emerged as essential public health responses to the coronavirus. As of March 31, 270 million people in at least 33 states, 89 counties, and 29 cities across the US have been urged by their government officials to stay home. While these policies often come…

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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…