(CNN) - In Las Vegas, the Catholic Charities' homeless shelter has long served as a facility for people in need of accommodations.

But after one homeless man who used the facility tested positive for coronavirus last week, the shelter was forced to close, leaving 500 homeless people scrambling for a new place to stay. Even Courtyard Homeless Resource Center, a nearby open-air facility, was unable to take in more people as it was almost at capacity.

So City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada officials decided to create a makeshift homeless shelter -- in the parking lot of Cashman Center.

Over the weekend, the parking lot of the center, which is normally a convention and baseball stadium complex, transformed into a sleeping space with help from volunteers.

But the sleeping arrangements ignited some backlash on Monday, after an image of homeless people circulated across social media. In the photo, a handful of people are seen lying in white boxes painted on the concrete floor -- six feet apart to enforce social distancing.

On Saturday, setting up the temporary shelter went smoothly.
About 50 volunteers laid out 24,000 square feet of carpet to create sleeping mats, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Nearly a dozen medical students from Touro University Nevada helped screen incoming guests, and took their temperatures.
"I'm about to cry," Denise Lankford, a homeless woman, told CNN affiliate KLAS. "This right here is helping us feel secure, feel safe. Other places, you don't feel safe."
The first night the shelter opened, 66 people slept there. But officials started to realize that the carpet could be more harmful than beneficial.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-las-vegas-homeless-cashman-center-trnd/index.html

News like this will make one understand God's mercy on Him/Her. It's well

The world Is coming to an end

Oh boy

Poverty is everywhere just that it has class

Can this be the big U S of A. Unbelievable!!!

USA can never have homeless people
Donald trump will never allow that

hisexcellency34:
The world Is coming to an end

And why madam? Simply because you just found out that ur almighty USA have homeless folks?

I hope this coronavirus will not use this homeless people to practice press-Up

Even in Las Vegas of US of A
Onye noro ebe ono ebe ozo Anna agu ya
It is not always great on the other side.

If you write this way, then this is a clear indication you need more orientation about politics and economics

NOETHNICITY:
USA can never have homeless people
Donald trump will never allow that

God help during this COVID-19

Most of these guys are people gambling rendered Useless.

Las vegas, the beautiful city with a beautiful night life according to the novels

Las Vegas American Gangster

Ogonimilitant:
Most of these guys are people gambling rendered Useless.

Its not fair classifying people like that... Poverty comes in so many ways.

Death of a breadwinner
Sickness
Disability
Extreme risk
Unemployment
Underemployment etc..

lewis33:
If you write this way, then this is a clear indication you need more orientation about politics and economics

I understand u bro
I was only being sarcastic.

And they are even practising Social Distancing