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• The Valley Breeze: Grant funding not part of showers for homeless

  No Community Development Block Grant funding from the city went toward the construction of recently closed showers for the homeless at 185 Dexter St., say officials.

• The Valley Breeze: Showers for homeless coming back to Pawtucket

  Homeless residents will once again have access to a nice warm shower after an area benefactor reached an agreement on a partnership with the city.

• The Valley Breeze: City’s homeless left without shower access

  Imagine, says Adrienne Marchetti, not having access to daily showers during the hottest and most humid days of summer. That’s what the city’s homeless residents now face after House of Hope’s ACCESS-RI program, which meets homeless needs on a walk-in basis, permanently closed its doors at 185 Dexter St. last Friday, June 28.

• ProJo: Program provides mobile showers, other services for homeless in Providence

  Shower to Empower, an initiative of House of Hope, consists of a trailer with showers and air-conditioned rooms where the city’s homeless or housing insecure can get free haircuts and medical exams. The program provided its 500th shower to those in need on Wednesday.

• The Valley Breeze: School officials unclear on lack of homeless grant

  School officials say they have been unable to determine why the local school district was again left out of a late October grant award to support local homeless students. Housing advocates recently estimated that there are 68 homeless students in Pawtucket currently.

• The Valley Breeze: Pawtucket's family homelessness problem ‘hasn’t gotten any better’

  At least four families in the city remain homeless after more than a year of trying to improve their situation, says Elaine Cruz, pictured, an advocate with the Pawtucket Child Opportunity Zone in city schools.