Due to freezing temperatures, the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services has declared a winter shelter warning for Thursday, December 19, 2024 through Friday, December 27 at 9 am. Call 211 (available 24/7) or 443-984-9540 to connect with shelter. Get more info here.
12.23.19
On Saturday, December 21, we gathered at Preston Gardens Park downtown to recognize Homeless Persons' Memorial Day. We read over 180 names and honored the lives of people with the experience of homelessness who passed away in 2019. Parents, siblings, friends, loved ones. 180 names is too many. One name is too many.
“People have passed away because homelessness itself marks the failure of just about every public system imaginable,” President and CEO Kevin Lindamood said. “The gap between the very, very wealthy and the very, very poor has only continued to widen." We take this day to remember our friends and recommit to the fight to end homelessness.
Read more about the event in the Baltimore Sun, and get a window into the memorial through the photos below.
