GRACE Marketplace has raised over $10,000 in an effort to help residents find housing, changed the spacing of beds and converted all meals to take-out in order to abide by the social distancing regulations recommended by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
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Registered voters who live in the city's District 2 will decide between incumbent Harvey Ward and challenger David Walle.
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Gainesville City Commissioners on Thursday unanimously voted to accept an eviction protocol for those in Dignity Village, a homeless camp near the northeast corner of the city.
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Each person experiencing homelessness gets handed a drawstring bag with items that have been donated to the Continuum of Care (COC) with snacks, toothpaste, soaps, and socks.
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St. Francis House Executive Director, Kent Vann, stepped down after 17 years in the position to focus on his health and spend time with family.
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Every chair of Florida's health care policy groups sat on a panel at the Universtiy of Florida on Monday to discuss health care costs and access. This event is the first of its kind at UF.
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Starting Tuesday, there will be a fence that outlines the camp for the purpose of preventing new people from moving in.
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Dignity Village is set to close by 2020. While housing options are being provided for the homeless people who live there, some are expected to reject the help.
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Corrine Brown began her prison sentence, Alachua County and Gainesville leaders squabbled over seemingly every issue large and small, and six weeks into the new year, the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Parkland changed much about what was to unfold. It was a busy year in local and statewide Florida …
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