As winter settles in New Hampshire, unhoused look for warm places to stay manchesterinklink.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from manchesterinklink.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Many winter shelters have already opened, providing unhoused people a warm place to stay. But housing organizers are also preparing for scenarios where individuals choose to not or cannot take shelter there.
Fort Eddy homeless encampment evacuated, over 20 residents displaced concordmonitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from concordmonitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Outside all winter: In N.H. and in the Lakes Region, unsheltered homelessness rises
Tim Haddock is a regular for lunch at Isaiah 61 Cafe in Laconia, which offers a weekday respite from the cold and a source of donated coats mittens and sleeping bags during cold weather. Roberta Baker Laconia Daily Sun
Freeman Toth has the weighty job of finding people before it is too late.
As one of two homeless outreach and housing stability coordinators for the Community Action Program of Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Toth combs the woods, encampments, parks and gazebos, shelters, soup kitchens and cars. He looks for people who have no consistent place to sleep or to escape life-threatening weather. Late last year he discovered a young man passed out on railroad tracks in freezing temperatures.