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This comment from the Lancet explores the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on children in temporary accommodation in the UK and calls on the UK government "to take necessary steps and work collaboratively with all sectors, health services, and the housing sector (eg, possibly use hotels with space availability due to no incoming tourists) to reduce overcrowding and transmission of COVID-19 to protect some of the most vulnerable in our society."
This article from The New York Times states that shelters face problems of abuse, arson, rape,and sexual molestation. These scandals have called into question the speed in which shelters were arranged.