“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%.