News about Reno, Nevada’s growing homeless population.
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting houseless individuals who are in different stages of recovery for substance use.
Homelessness
- Government
RISE approved to manage women and family shelter at Sparks campus
By Bob ConradBy Bob ConradReno nonprofit the Reno Initiative For Shelter and Equality today was approved by the Washoe Board of County Commissioners to operate a 114-bed women’s shelter called Our Place.
Sex offenders in Nevada can register residences at nearly any describable location, including parks and intersections, placing many near schools and children.
Village on Sage Street is an innovative affordable housing project that offers dorm-style accommodations and financial counseling to help residents bridge into standard housing.
Project Homeless and Family Connect provided free services and resources to more than 1,000 Reno individuals and families living homeless or with low income.
Our Place will open in May at the former Nevada Insane Asylum, providing shelter and assistance to women, children, seniors and families experiencing homelessness.
- Homelessness
STATE: Employee in homeless-camp cleanup video ‘does not represent the values’ of NDOT
By Bob ConradBy Bob ConradA video circulating online is stirring outrage over what homeless advocates are calling the abhorrent treatment of houseless individuals camping near the Truckee River.
Washoe County today confirmed that deaths of indigent people in the county rose slightly in 2019 — up one death from 37 in 2018 to 38 last year.
The Reno City Council on Wednesday approved a controversial program to clean up and restore the area around the Truckee River.
- Featured
River sweeps, cleanup proposal draw rebukes from ACLU, homeless advocates
By Bob ConradBy Bob ConradA $250,000 proposal by the City of Reno to clean up the Truckee River has drawn sharp responses from homeless advocates and the Nevada American Civil Liberties Union.
