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In the weekend had a hospice with 500 sleeps shut its doors after one of the residents tested positive to the new koronaviruset in Las Vegas, Nevada in the united STATES.
As a result of the closure has the local authorities have now taken into use a car park as a temporary hospice.
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Pictures of homeless people sleeping on the ground has led to criticism, but the local authorities described this as a crisis, and that the car park is the best possible solution.
– People will always criticize, but the city and the state of jobs for people to get the resources they need, ” says the spokesperson for the local authorities Las Vegas, Jace Radke, according to The Guardian.
the car park will be in use to 3. april when hospitset again opens its doors.
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Authorities say that the car park was taken into use because the football field has already been held of the to accept and accommodate hospital patients.
In the parking lot was put down the blue mats that the homeless could sleep on, and it was marked up the areas homeless and had to stay inside to not get too close to each other.
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Several photos taken from the parking lot to show that many of the homeless sleeping right on the asphalt and in just an arm’s length from each other.
KORONA: After it was proven koronasmitte at a hospice in the city, this parking lot has been taken in use.
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150.000 unused hotel reservations
Former presidential candidate and minister for urban development and housing policy, Julián Castro, is one of them that responds to the practice. Castro, who was part of president obama’s previous administration, believes that the authorities in Las Vegas homes and the homeless people away so no one sees them, and believes that there now is plenty of available beds in the city.
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– There are 150.000 unused hotel rooms in Las Vegas right now. What about a collaboration between the private and the public, to give them a temporary home there? he writes on Twitter.
In november of last year adopted the local authorities a law that made it possible to impose a fine and imprison the homeless by up to six months in prison.
According to The Guardian, there are at least 6500 homeless in the southern parts of Nevada.
despite the criticism, should the measure have been positively received by users, writes The Guardian.
– I start to almost cry. We feel safe and secure here. Other places we do it, ” says Denise Lankford, according to the newspaper.
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