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Rachel Carp 2 of 2 Patricia Nolan said not having an address or a bank account has kept her from receiving her check. Rachel Carp For people experiencing homelessness, accessing the third round of COVID-19 relief money requires resources often not available to them. Some North Texas organizations are helping people get online or get a mailing address so they can get paid. Before the pandemic, Jesse Hawkins had a job and a home. Now he lives at Camp Rhonda, a homeless encampment in Dallas. When COVID first started I lost my job, businesses shut down, what money I did save up I spent to survive, couldn’t get a job because nobody was hiring so this is where I ended up, he said. ....
For Americans with a fixed address or a bank account, the third stimulus payment has arrived without them needing to lift a finger. It simply showed up in their checking account or mailbox. But not for Dallas’ unsheltered homeless population, who lack fixed addresses and often don’t have a bank account. Some even lack basic identification. As much as they could use the money, many unsheltered people in Dallas simply fall through the bureaucratic cracks. This is certainly the case for more than half a dozen residents of Camp Rhonda, the embattled homeless encampment in southern Dallas. The city of Dallas has forced or pressured the camp to move twice: first in February after the city issued a code violation to the property owner where the camp originally was formed, and again in early March when dozens of cops pushed the camp out of Pioneer Park near City Hall. ....