On a blistering-hot June day in Birmingham, Alabama, Elena Vasquez Garcia sautéed chicken and bell peppers over the stove, ingredients for tacos topped with “expensive” avocados for her three children at home, after she’d spent the week at a food pantry catering to community members who can’t afford meat, milk and produce. Feeding four people
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law that takes homeless individuals off Florida’s streets and places them in encampments monitored by law enforcement. The shortsighted law neglects individual circumstances and fails to adequately address the complex set of social, economic, legal and health issues that homeless people are enduring. House Bill 1365 bans homeless people from
Alachua County homeless service providers could potentially lose millions of dollars of funding they are entitled to if they can’t find a lead agency to administer the money. The Continuum of Care (CoC) is a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development designated community collaborative that seeks to address homelessness and utilize HUD funding,