Sentences with phrase «as a homeless crisis»

«As our homeless crisis spirals out of control, with our most vulnerable children and families at risk, the city doesn't have a game - plan.

As a result, the de Blasio administration is now dealing with unending criticism about its response to what many in the city perceive as a homeless crisis.

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As churches, we set up soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and outreach centers for individuals in crisis.

Proving the old retail adage that location is everything, despite sky - high prices for hotels and restaurants, as well as the disgraceful city - allowed muck in the streets resulting from the homeless crisis, the stunning beauty of the San Francisco Bay and The City's splendid tourist attractions support a huge convention industry and vacuum up tourist money from around the world.

As the nation's capital struggles with a homeless crisis, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson plans to introduce legislation as soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save casAs the nation's capital struggles with a homeless crisis, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson plans to introduce legislation as soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save casas soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save casas this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save cash.

«Whatever Gilbert Taylor's qualifications may be, the appearance of using a Family Court judgeship as a soft landing for someone who botched the city's response to the homeless crisis is concerning,» said City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Queens), chair of the Committee on Courts & Legal Services.

Diaz described them as two closely related issues that have come to dominate discussion in the city, claiming that New York was undoubtedly in the midst of a homeless crisis.

As a war of words between the governor and the mayor escalated over the homeless issue, a spokesperson for Cuomo recently said the mayor can not manage the homeless crisis.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled plans on Tuesday to build 90 new homeless shelters in New York City as his policy for handling the city's homelessness crisis continues to come under scrutiny.

The de Blasio administration is looking for vendors to take over the job of finding hotel rooms in bulk for homeless New Yorkers, even as the mayor says he views hotels as a temporary, less - than - desirable solution to the city's homelessness crisis.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio finally admitted that «we need to catch up with the reality» of the city's escalating homeless crisis — as he announced the abrupt exit of the commissioner responsible for helping New York's needy.

An administration official confirmed to the Daily News Tuesday that the Creedmoor site is no longer being considered as a way to deal with the city's homeless crisis.

«We're in the middle of a homeless crisis,» Cuomo said in December as he sought the release of $ 1 billion from the MOU.

In response to the city's continuing homelessness crisis, the council is also requesting the state increase support for the Homeless Rental Assistance Program collectively known as LINC.

The Creedmoor idea, first reported by the New York Post a little more than a week ago, was among the plans Cuomo was considering as part of a larger initiative to address New York City's growing homeless crisis.

In a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.»

The de Blasio administration is looking for vendors to take over the job of finding hotel rooms in bulk for homeless New Yorkers, even as Mayor Bill de Blasio says he views hotels as a temporary, less - than - desirable solution to the city's homelessness crisis.

Team Cuomo promptly upped the ante, as spokeswoman Dani Lever said, «Yes, it's clear that the mayor can't manage the homeless crisis.»

That move could have political overtones as Cuomo has criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio over his handling of the homeless crisis in New York City.

«The Big Short» follows three groups of people who foresaw the crisis to come and bet huge amounts of money against the banks, thus somewhat guiltily making fortunes for themselves as much of America found itself broke and homeless.

This country still faces a homeless pet overpopulation crisis where some animal control agencies and shelters who do not have the same resources or adoption audience as the SPCA of Northern Nevada are forced to euthanize homeless pets.

This space was designed to serve as a modest but comfortable home for homeless dogs in crisis as well as a working classroom for adopters, shelter staff and rescue workers.

ADW in Taos now provides weekly therapeutic groups to children and families at the local domestic violence shelter; military veterans; teens with disabilities as an AmeriCorps community service program; at - risk youth at an alternative middle school; and homeless youth at the local youth crisis shelter, and more.

Eoin McLochlainn (Fig 2) invariably uses newspaper imagery as source material for studies of ordinary people in situations of crisis or conflict, be they homeless or drug dependant.

Provide direct harm reduction services to youth and young adults who identify as homeless, in - crisis, and / or runaway up to the age of 25 years old.

[3] The authorizing legislation for the property tax includes the following uses [RSMo 210.861.4]: (1) Up to thirty days of temporary shelter for abused, neglected, runaway, homeless or emotionally disturbed youth; respite care services; and services to unwed mothers; (2) Outpatient chemical dependency and psychiatric treatment programs; counseling and related services as a part of transitional living programs; home - based and community - based family intervention programs; unmarried parent services; crisis intervention services, inclusive of telephone hotlines; and prevention programs which promote healthy lifestyles among children and youth and strengthen families; (3) Individual, group, or family professional counseling and therapy services; psychological evaluations; and mental health screenings.

I first knew that I wanted to help people by my freshman year in high school, when I began volunteering as a peer educator at the Oasis Center, a crisis shelter for homeless and runaway teens in Nashville, TN.

Other states hard - hit by the foreclosure crisis as well as high unemployment also were found to be difficult for homeless children, including Arizona, California, and Nevada.