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== NLCHP (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty) recommendations ==
NLCHP. "COVID-19 Statement & Recommendations." March 2020. <br/> [http://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-Statement.pdf http://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-Statement.pdf]
''"People without housing are especially vulnerable to poor health and communicable diseases, including COVID-19 - the coronavirus pandemic threatening the lives and health of people worldwide. Worse yet, unhoused people have limited options for safe, sanitary shelter, making an effective response to the deadly virus extremely difficult. To effectively address this public health crisis, we must implement the human rights to housing and healthcare. ''
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An '''emergency shelter''' is a place for people to live temporarily when they cannot live in their previous residence, similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeless_shelter homeless shelters]. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as natural or man-made [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disasters disasters], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence domestic violence], or victims of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse sexual abuse]. A more minor difference is that people staying in emergency shelters are more likely to stay all day, except for work, school, or errands, while homeless shelters usually expect people to stay elsewhere during the day, returning only to sleep or eat. Emergency shelters sometimes facilitate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_group support groups], and/or provide meals.
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== San Francisco 1906 Earthquake response ==
== References ==▼
▲== References ==
NLCHP (National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty). "Coronavirus." accessed 21 March, 2020. https://nlchp.org/coronavirus/.▼
NLCHP. "COVID-19 Statement & Recommendations." March 2020. accessed 21 March, 2020. http://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-Statement.pdf.▼
▲*NLCHP (National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty). "Coronavirus." accessed 21 March, 2020. [https://nlchp.org/coronavirus/ https://nlchp.org/coronavirus/].<br/>
▲*NLCHP. "COVID-19 Statement & Recommendations." March 2020. accessed 21 March, 2020. [http://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-Statement.pdf http://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-Statement.pdf].<br/>
*NLIHC (National Low Income Housing Coalition). "Join the Disaster Recovery Housing Coalition." <br/> [https://nlihc.org/coronavirus-and-housing-homelessness https://nlihc.org/coronavirus-and-housing-homelessness]. <br/>
*Wikipedia (En). "Emergency shelter." accessed 21 March, 2020. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_shelter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_shelter]
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