City of Arcata Uses Downtown Parking Lots as Temporary Homeless Shelters Amid COVID-19 Emergency

On 4/14/20, Lost Coast Outpost’s Stephanie McGeary reported on the partnership between the City of Arcata and Arcata House Partnership to provide emergency shelter for the city’s unhoused in two city-owned parking lots during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“AHP Executive Director Darlene Spoor told the Outpost Monday that the organization is working with Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives to provide portable showers on the sites, and is also working with Open Door’s mobile health services. AHP also plans to deliver three daily meals to the sites to help people not have to venture out in search of food. 

“ ‘That’s the whole goal,’ Spoor told the Outpost. ‘It’s supposed to be an opportunity to shelter in place.’” 

Read the entire article at Lost Coast Outpost.