“Either we can choose a spot (for sheltering homeless people) or they will choose a spot,” said Manchester Fire Chief Ryan Cashin.
Unhoused people who are dealing with mental illness or substance use issues will be involuntarily committed, while treatment programs that look to make them safter will be defunded under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump Thursday.
Bedford Police are investigating a fatal motor vehicle incident that happened early Wednesday morning, June 11, at approximately 5:42 a.m. That’s when Bedford Police responded to 7 Kilton Road, behind Hannaford, for a report of an individual who appeared to have been run over by a tractor-trailer.
Over the past three to four years, 32 mobile homes and trailers abandoned on city streets have been towed and stored at the transfer station on Dunbarton Road.
I’ve heard elected officials in Manchester responding to criticisms about their mishandlings of the homelessness crisis by saying “homelessness is a complicated problem”. For those of us who face the horrific consequences of these mishandlings out on the streets it certainly can be complicated. However the solution is quite simple.
Held at Bronstein Park in Manchester on March 21 at 6:30 p.m., right across from the Waypoint Youth Shelter, the in-person gathering will include speeches from Waypoint staff, food, opportunity to dance, and vendor stands, including the Pop-up Gallery.
The city’s winter warming station is scheduled to close next Friday. I understand it has been serving between 25-60 people daily, depending on the weather. One of those people, for a time, was Lexi Ramirez.
This funding comes through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Continuum of Care (CoC) Program and the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP), which work with nonprofits, states and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals, families and youth, as well as individuals fleeing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
The public is invited to attend the 8th Annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Vigil. The event is organized by Catholic Medical Center’s Healthcare for the Homeless in partnership with the City of Manchester Health Department, Families in Transition, Hope for New Hampshire Recovery, the New Hampshire Coalition to End Homelessness and the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester.
The numbers tell a disheartening story. With a surge of 52.1% in the number of people experiencing homelessness, NH experienced the highest percentage increase in its Point in Time (PIT) Count of any state in 2023. In comparison, the national 2023 PIT Count grew only 12%.
Tom Puskarich who operates Restoration Café at 235 Hanover St., said one of the unintended consequences of the city’s decision to prevent the homeless from camping in city parks and on sidewalks is that they are gravitating to areas where they are vacant, privately owned buildings. And that, he said, has affected his business.
For way too long these proven programs have had to hide in the shadows, due to general ignorance about their successes in maintaining a healthy community, and to the general stigma surrounding drugs which are consumed with needles (rather than just smoking or drinking).
For decades, I have been involved with many other advocates in efforts to end homelessness in NH and worked for many years in agencies involved with housing and low-income people. I grew up in and have worked in Manchester. I have also worked all over the state including Nashua, where I live now. Since homelessness is caused by multiple economic, social, and health-related factors, it is not easy to find effective solutions.
She said in her report that Biery’s statement about a “Manhunt” and the officers’ behavior that followed “turned what should have been professional situation into a child’s game, effectively bringing disrepute to him and the Manchester Police Department,” Smith wrote.
On Friday morning, Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais made a pledge to provide homes to all homeless veterans in Manchester by the end of his term, which ends in 472 days.
Mayor Jay Ruais announced Thursday that the latest data shows the city continues to see real results with programs for the homeless at the Engagement Center, along with increased citations and arrests for illicit behaviors in city parks.
In a press release issued Wednesday from City Hall, Ruais recapped his recent efforts to reduce the number of visibly homeless and restore public spaces – primarily parks – from becoming encampments for the homeless.
After 2 ½ days of testimony, prosecutors rested their case against Alexandra Eckersley, the formerly homeless woman accused of abandoning her newborn son in 15-degree weather after giving birth to him in a makeshift tent in the woods.
Nineteen months ago, Alexandra Eckersley, 27, misdirected emergency workers searching for her newborn son, who she is accused of abandoning in a makeshift tent in temperatures hovering around 15 degrees, because she was afraid she would get in trouble, according to prosecutors.
