The City of Reno’s Clean and Safe Team has increased clearings of large homeless camps over the last few weeks.
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- Homelessness
City to ramp up homeless camp cleanups, enforce no-camping ordinances
By Bob ConradBy Bob ConradMayor Hillary Schieve said Tuesday she wants an emergency declared for the rise of homelessness in the area, particularly for encampments along the Truckee River.
The City’s Clean and Safe Team conducted a cleaning of a small camp of about a dozen people experiencing homelessness near the intersection of West Fourth Street and Stoker Avenue on Thursday.
Reno Police Officers today prevented local journalists from This Is Reno, Our Town Reno and KRNV from documenting the cleanup of homeless encampments along the Truckee River.
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting houseless individuals who are in different stages of recovery for substance use.
Reno-area apartment rental rates have slipped, vacancy rates have inched higher, and at least one longtime observer of the market thinks the softening market is more than a mere fluke.
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.
Reno is forming an advisory committee to address the lack of affordable rental housing by identifying challenges and solutions.
- 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.
