Posts tagged with Office of Homeless Services

Last Updated: Jan. 05, 2020 · 9:06 a.m.

Philly scouting potential quarantine sites for city’s homeless population

In the meantime, OHS will distribute wipes and sanitizer.

Without a place to go, displaced people say they're "just going to move somewhere else."

The city's Shared Public Spaces program was so successful, stakeholders are expanding its reach.

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The "feels like" temp could hit 113 degrees.

300 homeless Philadelphians might be back on the street this month.

Prevention Point is the latest center to keep its doors open around the clock.

The nonprofit micro-theater stayed open overnight to welcome people from the cold.

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When the city looked at how cash on the street was used, they saw "the long tentacles of the opioid crisis."