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City Partners With Community Partners To Offer Shelter To The Homeless
The City of Tampa has partnered with Catholic Char- ities and several community partners to help homeless in- dividuals get off the streets during the COVID-19 pan- demic.
While City of Tampa resi- dents are staying safely at home as much as possible, homeless individuals in the community were facing scarce
TENTS FOR HOMELESS
Hillsborough Hope is an emergency homeless shelter that will house 100 homeless individuals. The shelter will provide housing using tents, three meals a day, showers, laundry, case management, and medical care. The goal of this project is to provide a place where the homeless can also be “safer at home.”
The model used to set up Hillsborough Hope is in line with the Health Department’s preference towards open-air shelters which are considered better to avoid the spread of COVID-19.
Mayor Jane Castor said, “In Tampa, we help each other in times of need, and Hillsbor- ough Hope is a perfect exam- ple of that. Our community came together on this mission to supply potentially life-sav- ing resources to individuals that have nowhere else to go.
“Thanks to Catholic Chari-
ties and our generous commu- nity partners, 100 Homeless individuals will have a place to sleep at night, a place to shower, and a place to hunker down—protecting them and the rest of our community from the spread of COVID-19. I believe everyone deserves a safe place to stay during these uncertain times, and the sooner we start taking care of each other, the sooner we can get through this together.”
For more information about Coronavirus, visit our website at tampagov.net/COVID-19 and text TAMPAREADY or TAM- PALISTA to 888-777 to receive emergency text alerts.
Those in need of social service can also visit our web- site at tampagov.net/emer- gency-management/covid-19/ social-services or call the Tampa’s Recovery Hotline at 1-833-TPA-INFO.
resources and limited space in shelters.
To help those who have no place to go during this difficult
time, the City of Tampa has contracted Catholic Charities ($120,000) to establish Hills- borough Hope.
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