City officials and outreach workers across the US were rushing to get people off the streets this week, turning sites such as libraries into shelters to mitigate a humanitarian crisis caused by freezing weather and an influx of migrants. | Reuters
Denver officials also opened the municipal Wellington Webb Building on Thursday night. The building is a workplace for more than 1,000 city employees and, according to the city’s emergency operations center, it is the first time it has been used as a shelter.
“Severe weather exacerbates the cruel reality of homelessness in America,” said Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless.
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