There are 16 article(s) tagged homeless services:

• December 2024

  • Traveling shower shows up for Memphis homeless community

    Nonprofit ShowerUp will help give “a little boost” to those who need it at the Hospitality Hub. 

    By Abigail Warren December 30, 2024

  • 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. 

    By Aisling Mäki December 24, 2024

• June 2022

  • 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

    By Aarron Fleming June 22, 2022

• December 2020

  • Despite CARES funding, Graceland-area hotel facing bankruptcy, auction

    Revenue lost in Memphis in May, Elvis Week cancellations compound hotel’s COVID-19 problems.

    By David Waters December 10, 2020

• November 2020

  • 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.

    By David Waters November 25, 2020

  • 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.

    By Tom Bailey November 25, 2020

  • 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.

    By Tom Bailey November 23, 2020

  • 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.

    By Tom Bailey November 16, 2020

• September 2020

  • 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.

    By Tom Bailey September 02, 2020

• June 2020

  • 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.

    By Tom Bailey June 18, 2020

• April 2020

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries April 10, 2020

• December 2019

  • $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. 

    By Omer Yusuf December 27, 2019

• May 2019

  • 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. 

    By Omer Yusuf May 06, 2019

  • 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.

    By Omer Yusuf, Tom Bailey May 01, 2019

• April 2019

  • 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. 

    By Omer Yusuf April 25, 2019

• October 2018

  • 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.

    By Tom Bailey October 18, 2018