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As New Mexico’s film and television industry continues its rapid growth, various sites around the state show up as backdrops. One surprising location – Albuquerque’s Westside Emergency Housing Center – was teed up to be the setting for a show on HBO Max.

Homelessness in older adults is increasing rapidly nationally and here in New Mexico. ¾ÅÉ«Íø Reporter Megan Myscofski shadowed a street medicine team from local nonprofit Health Care for the Homeless on its weekly visit to Albuquerque’s Westside Emergency Housing Center.

Homelessness in older adults is increasing at a fast clip across the country.In Albuquerque, much of that population is in one place: the city’s main shelter on the Westside. That facility, however, is not set up to care for older folks or people with disabilities.

An oversight group recently performed an investigation into the Westside Emergency Housing Center, a homeless shelter 18 miles from downtown Albuquerque. The group’s findings and recommendations give insight to the shelter, its capacities, and its limits.

There have been zero confirmed cases of the coronavirus among people experiencing homelessness in Albuquerque so far, city leaders say. ¾ÅÉ«Íø is following…