The Tulare Cares low-barrier shelter will open its doors by the first week of August and provide wrap-around services and resources to unhoused community members.
Even before two people died because of plunging temperatures earlier this week, the Fresno Mission was working to provide help for the unhoused.
More veterans are getting off the streets and into permanent housing, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Action News has learned that 50-year-old Ronald Wallace and 52-year-old Denise Celis are the two people who were found dead in a tent near Highway 180 and Abby Street.
Risks of hypothermia are increasing for those who are unhoused, especially those without safe heating elements.
The City of Fresno faces a federal lawsuit as unhoused resident Wickey Twohands claims the city has criminalized homelessness.