On a route that took them past shelters, hotels and the city jail, protesters marched through downtown Baltimore demanding that the city halt its plan to return people to shelters amid the continuing Covid-19 pandemic.

Alexis Garnett, a 22-year-old homeless woman who lives at the Fairfield Inn, which now houses homeless people moved from the Pinderhughes shelter, said it would be devastating to return to a less safe congregate shelter.

“Staying at the old Pinderhughes was traumatizing, especially during Covid,” Garnett said yesterday, speaking through a microphone in front of the hotel on President Street. “New people came in everyday, we were bunched up living together, and were not six feet apart.”

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