Global Café steps in to feed hundreds sheltering from freezing temps
Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall have forced many local businesses to close this week, but Global Café has been delivering warm, hearty meals to those in need citywide.
Topic: homeless services
RSSThere are 15 article(s) tagged homeless services:
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January 2024
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June 2022
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Memphis group receives $3.8M grant to help combat youth homelessness
The grant is an initiative from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development aimed at helping communities come up with solutions for combatting youth homelessness.
Related story: ‘It’s been drastic': New camping law ups risk of felonies for homeless population
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December 2020
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Despite CARES funding, Graceland-area hotel facing bankruptcy, auction
Revenue lost in Memphis in May, Elvis Week cancellations compound hotel’s COVID-19 problems.
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November 2020
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Homeless agencies scrambling to keep staff safe, guests sheltered from COVID-19
As coronavirus surges, rising toll of infections, deaths push agencies to provide more testing.
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Room in the Inn prepares its first home, and to grow
Room in the Inn uses the buildings and volunteers of 55 faith organizations to provide emergency shelter to the homeless. Now the organization is about to add a headquarters building and three more emergency-shelter programs.
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Center will provide recuperation for homeless patients released from hospital
The site is the former home of the historic Collins Chapel Connectional Hospital near the Medical District.
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Room in the Inn, CME Church plan permanent shelter for homeless
The CME Church has dropped plans to turn its historic, long-vacant Collins Chapel Connectional Hospital property into a skilled nursing facility. Now the church plans to lease the space to Room in the Inn, which will provide shelter, meals and some medical care to the homeless.
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September 2020
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Daytime plaza designed for the homeless will soon open
The Hospitality Hub Plaza will offer the homeless three bathrooms, water, shade, lockers, USB receptacles, Downtown skyline views and an open, gentle invitation to receive support.
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June 2020
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Eviction-aid program could reduce homelessness long term
A new, local program will offer free legal representation and housing counseling to renters facing pandemic-related evictions. Participating landlords will be paid negotiated settlements. And the court that handles evictions is participating.
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April 2020
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Young says pandemic exacerbating digital divide problem
The director of the city's division of Housing and Community Development said on "Behind The Headlines" that Wi-Fi access for students living in public housing is a challenge that has become more acute with classes suspended in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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December 2019
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$4 million renovation underway at Salvation Army’s Purdue Center of Hope
The renovations are expected to be complete by 2021 as the Salvation Army hopes to serve even more families in Memphis.
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May 2019
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Hospitality Hub continues efforts to help the homeless in Memphis
The Hospitality Hub may be undergoing a potential relocation and expansion if the city and county approve millions in additional funding over the next month.
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Organizations raise questions about Hospitality Hub expansion
Questions about the Hospitality Hub expansion come less than a week after Memphis and Shelby County announced a proposal to relocate and expand the facility Downtown.
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April 2019
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Memphis, Shelby County announce effort to reduce homelessness
A plan to address homelessness in Memphis includes funding a new women's shelter as part of a relocation and expansion of Hospitality Hub.
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October 2018
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Union Mission building $34M homeless shelter
The city’s largest emergency shelter for the homeless holds a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for the first phase of a $34 million project replacing its outdated facilities Downtown with a 52,875-square-foot complex.
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