A new Philadelphia stay-at-home order shut down all non-life-essential businesses, gatherings, and activities due to the rising severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the order didn’t stop the city’s plans to remove people experiencing homelessness from an encampment near the Convention Center Monday morning. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
Unhoused residents are more vulnerable than ever, and outreach workers are doubling down their efforts to ensure their health and safety under the new CDC restrictions. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
According to Mike Dunn, the city’s senior deputy communications director, the city is developing plans for housing should separating people who are sick and experiencing homelessness become necessary. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
Organizations such as Project HOME and Covenant House Pennsylvania, which provide thousands of Philadelphians with temporary housing, food and health care, have been forced to adjust their outreach efforts. | From: NBC10 Philadelphia (Read more.)
Philadelphia officials plan to soon open a quarantine facility for people who cannot sequester themselves at home. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
At Project HOME’s Stephen Klein Wellness Center, health care workers are encouraging patients to get tested for COVID-19 if they have symptoms like a dry cough or fever. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
As school resources shut down, students with economic hardship are being left behind. Philly universities have offered to buy students flights home, but for some this means returning to war-torn countries and unstable households, placing financial burdens on their families. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
In one of the city’s lowest-wealth neighborhoods, dozens of brown-bag breakfasts and lunches went untouched Monday, the first of what is to be many days of schoolchildren being kept at home and their parents being out of work. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
‘Not us or them’: Landlord group asks members to follow court order to halt evictions
With more people working and studying from home due to the coronavirus outbreak, Comcast is giving customers unlimited data for no additional charge and making its vast network of Xfinity WiFi hot spots free for everyone. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
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