The Mayor's Office of Homeless Services has activated a Code Purple shelter declaration for Wednesday, 2/11 at 4PM through Sunday, 2/15 at 9AM. Shelter seekers should call 211 or contact the Baltimore City Shelter Hotline at 443-984-9540. Get more info here.

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On March 10, Maryland lawmakers restored the right to vote for individuals with felony records. The next morning, Health Care for the Homeless client advocates began registering their peers—in time for April's primary elections.

At Health Care for the Homeless, we seize every opportunity to educate others about poverty and homelessness. The legislative session in Annapolis is fertile ground for that work, and for elevating efforts in our community to—quite literally—change people’s lives. They changed John’s.

Public benefits—many of them very small—are a lifeline for 1,000s of Marylanders. For Derrick, $185 a month has been the difference between being housed and living on the street.

Nine years ago February, 12-year-old Deamonte Driver died from an abcessed tooth. The tragic reality remains that if he were still living and got a toothache today at the age of 21, the outcome would likely be no different.