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Homelessness And Covid-19, Justin Macneill, Alexa Lahey, Nina Teo
Homelessness And Covid-19, Justin Macneill, Alexa Lahey, Nina Teo
Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the struggle of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) and presented new challenges to those serving this vulnerable population. To better understand and articulate how COVID has impacted both PEH and their ecosystem of support, we compared the national response - aggregated via a literature review of both gray and academic literature - to the statewide response in Indiana and the local response in Tippecanoe County.
Local homelessness providers emphasized that organizational partnerships are key - policy changes in one organization can have malignant effect extending throughout and putting additional strain on other organizations within the local …