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As shared on KVMR: As the housing case manager, I offer a “Ready to Rent” class. A woman we’ll call “Shannon” attended all 5 sessions of my Ready to Rent class and graduated speedily. She’s been diligently working on finding housing and was able to find a room to rent...

I am Debbie McDonald with Hospitality House, which is the only emergency homeless shelter in Nevada County, with 54 beds for homeless men, women and children. Transportation is a big issue in this rural area for people who don’t have cars, and many of our guests...

I am Fred Skeen with Hospitality House, which is the only emergency homeless shelter in Nevada County, with 54 beds for homeless men, women and children. The shelter is looking spiffy this week thanks to the United Way of Nevada County Day of Action where...

There was a lot of discussion last winter about the warming shelter. We were so thankful that the City of Grass Valley and Nevada County partnered so we could open up 15 more beds in the dining room. Over the course of those four months, 157 people sheltered in the...

Yesterday 50 people from the shelter and the community grabbed trash bags and gloves and hit the streets in Brunswick Basin to clean up trash. The teams cleaned up many campsites near Sutton Way and Plaza Drive in addition to areas around local businesses, like...

I want to tell you about some of the work done by the Outreach Case Manager at Hospitality House. He works with people living “in the rough”. Sometimes he gets a call from the jail and they are releasing someone who has nowhere to go. He picks them up and either...

"Bruce "Utah" Phillips became famous the world over by performing songs, poems and stories that told the tale of normal, hard-working folks. Off the stage, he was well known as a labor organizer and advocate for the homeless. He was a local celebrity who placed high...

"Bruce "Utah" Phillips became famous the world over by performing songs, poems and stories that told the tale of normal, hard-working folks. Off the stage, he was well known as a labor organizer and advocate for the homeless. He was a local celebrity who placed high...

Did you see Steve Baker’s article in The Prospector yesterday about DJ Husky LePew celebrating his 100th show? That KVMR DJ talked to Steve Baker about the help he received from Hospitality House several years ago. "So I came here (KVMR) with an incredibly sexy voice...