Portions of the land are also leased to private and outside entities. Many veterans experiencing homelessness receive services there, and some camp on the sidewalks surrounding the property.
In April, amid the pandemic, the VA turned one of its parking lots into a makeshift campground with 25 tents to allow homeless veterans to shelter in place. The program, which is called the Care, Treatment and Rehabilitative Services Initiative CTRS , is specifically for health care-eligible veterans and provides hot meals, bathrooms, security, health care and social services.
The idea is to provide a low barrier place to begin exiting homelessness. Over the past few months, it has grown from 25 to 50 tents, and now officials have made space for At least two LA City Councilmembers are actively exploring potential sites for service-connected, sanctioned campgrounds. She came back the next day with her close friend and provided a few blankets. The next day she returned and was able to provide a hot meal. By day three, word of what Miles was doing started to circulate around town, and by the end of the week dozens of people, local churches, businesses, and non-profit organizations started reaching out to Miles, asking how they could help.
According to a report by the U. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in recent years the number of tent cities has been on the rise. Tent City Akron formed about a year ago near the Rainbow Laundromat and 10 to 12 people call the wooded, grassy area home. The land where the encampment is located is owned by the N. Department of Transportation and last week, people living in Tent City Akron were told that they had to clean up the property by the end of the month or receive a nuisance and abatement order.
On Saturday, Feb. Frankie Gist, who is the founder of HOPE Dealers Outreach, said when he saw what Miles was doing, he immediately reached out and asked how he could help. Jamel Holmes did grow up to become a teacher.
He earned a master's degree and now teaches special education for sixth graders at East Bronx Academy for the Future, the same school he attended.
Holmes uses DonorsChoose to help his students get what they need both inside and outside school. He has crowdfunded technology tools for his classroom as well as personal care items for his students. He drives through the Bronx to give school supplies, clothing, laundry essentials and food to kids whose families are in need, and even takes students to get free haircuts. He wants to be a role model students can turn to. Courtesy of Jamel Holmes. Schools are charged with providing a safe, nurturing and equitable environment for students and teachers.
Supporting educators who are trying to create that environment by helping fund their racial equity projects is a good place to start. When you cram a mass of humanity onto a stadium floor, and those humans are fans of the performer on stage in front of them, anything can happen.
People have been crushed in mosh pits before—the Who and Pearl Jam concerts have seen multiple fans trampled to death in a concert, for example. So when eight people were killed and dozens more injured at rapper Travis Scott's Astroworld Musical Festival in Houston last Friday, it was definitely tragic but not totally unprecedented.
What was hard for people to grasp was how the tragedy was handled in real time by the people with power to do something about it. Viral video shows two young concertgoers desperately trying to get a cameraman to stop the show because people were dying. One of them, Seanna Faith McCarty , pleaded with him to tell someone to stop the show, pointing toward the crowd and saying that people were dying. Another concertgoer, identified on Twitter as Ayden Cruz, stood on the ladder of the camera platform and also yelled at the cameraman to stop the show.
Here's another angle of the attempt to alert the crew member to the deadly situation on the ground. However, no one stopped the show. According to Insider , at one point, Scott can be heard over the loudspeaker saying: "Who asked me to stop?
You all know what you came here to do. They're streaming live. McCarty detailed the story of how she ended up on the camera platform, desperately trying to get someone to stop the show and do something about the deadly conditions in the crowd. She described how she and her friend had wanted to be close to the stage, but ended up a ways back, on the side near a walkway. They were surrounded by chest-high metal barriers, and she said after waiting two hours for the concert to start, "Every gap was filled.
Where your feet were placed was where they stayed. Tall men, women. Women and men where the only thing they could see was the back of the person in front of them. The rush of people became tighter and tighter. Breathing became something only a few were capable of. The rest were crushed or unable to breathe in the thick, hot air.
My friend began to gasp for breath, and she told me we needed to get out. We tried. There was nowhere to go. The shoving got harder and harder. If someone's arms had been up, it was no longer a possibility to put it down. So, people began to choke one another as the mass swayed.
It became more and more violent. More and more. One person fell, or collapsed, it doesn't matter how it started. Once one fell, a hole opened in the ground. It was like watching Jenga tower topple. Person after person were sucked down. You could not guess from which direction the shove of hundreds of people would come next. You were at the mercy of the wave. I watched my friend be dragged away from me and lost sight of her. I began to realize in that moment that there is a way to die that no many people know about.
Being trampled to death. McCarty described the "shrieks of animals" and "sinkholes of people" all around her. She was shoved toward the ground and saw the body of a man, followed by "layers of fallen people.
There were people. Being trampled by every foot that slammed into the ground as each individual tried to keep themselves upright. A man finally grabbed her and pulled her out and away from the sinkhole of people. She was able to make her way to the back of the crowd, where she found people "just standing there.
Like nothing was happening. Like people weren't dead a few feet from them. She spotted the cameraman on the platform and climbed the ladder to get his attention. She pointed to the hole, telling him people were dying.
Q: Are there background checks on Tent City residents? Tent City states that people with active warrants are not allowed to stay at Tent City. Tent City also reports that Police will be notified immediately of anyone rejected due to warrant status or that has registered sex offender status. Q: Has there been an increase in crime associated with Tent City? A: The Police Department plans to closely monitor Tent City and its impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
The Police have reviewed information from cities that have already had Tent City camps. These cities did not report an increase in general crime levels nor have there been crimes reported against neighbors, children or students in the immediately surrounding areas. Any police, fire or medical assistance request associated with Tent City will be monitored by the Police Department. Q: What happens if an individual is rejected or required to leave Tent City because they have violated the Code of Conduct?
For code of conduct click here link to code of conduct. A: If a resident is required to leave the camp, the person is given a bus pass and escorted to bus transportation. If bus transportation is not readily available, Tent Cities will arrange for alternative transportation such as a private vehicle or taxi service.
Q: What other measures are proposed to ensure protection of public health and safety of local neighbors as well as temporary residents of any proposed Tent City? A: Public Health Seattle-King County provides environmental health-related services to Tent City in order to promote a safe and healthy living environment for the residents and the surrounding neighborhoods.
They provide onsite visits to discuss the maintenance and operations of toilet facilities, garbage control, obtaining potable water, hand washing and safe food handling practices. They visit each Tent City as it is established and monitor the situation at each site. The city may assign a code enforcement liaison to monitor the Tent City site.
This Code Enforcement Officer would inspect the camp daily, including weekends, and ensure that there are no Municipal Code violations. Q: What measures are proposed to handle refuse and human waste on proposed sites?
A: Tent City reports that a dumpster would be provided for the handling of refuse and would be regularly collected. Tent City states that residents are forbidden to litter the camp or the surrounding neighborhood. Tent City says that it conducts regular patrols to monitor adjacent streets and sidewalks to ensure they are kept clean.
Anecdotal reports from other cities indicate that previous neighbors have commented on the cleanliness of their streets during the tenure of Tent City, due to these regular patrols. Tent City states that it would provide well maintained, portable toilets sufficient to the needs of up to residents. Hand washing stations would be available adjacent to these toilets.
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