Sentences with phrase «at city homeless shelters»

Mayor Michael Bloomberg was recently quoted as saying that the sharp rise in the length of stays at city homeless shelters has to do with «more pleasurable» shelter conditions.

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At a very young age, Luna left her home in post-Chernobyl Ukraine to take asylum in a New York City homeless shelter.

Researchers at Baylor University have released the findings of a new study that looked at the number of «emergency shelter beds» for the homeless across 11 major U.S. cities, and...

DNAInfo article on BP Adams joining Mayor de Blasio at a town hall in Bedford - Stuyvesant that focused on a new homeless shelter plan for the city.

Also at 11 a.m., the Legal Aid Society, Coalition For The Homeless, Picture the Homeless, Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, VOCAL - NY, Communities United for Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, MaHomeless, Picture the Homeless, Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, VOCAL - NY, Communities United for Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, MaHomeless, Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, VOCAL - NY, Communities United for Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, Mahomeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

A Girl Scouts troop established in February at a homeless shelter in Queens will expand to 14 additional shelters throughout New York City and is expected to serve about 500 girls.

With New York City's homeless population in shelters at a record high of 50,000, a growing number of people living there are actually working — sometimes more than one job — but still can't afford a place of their own.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

Council speaker Christine Quinn, usually a staunch Bloomberg ally, is furious at the administration's court attempt to knock down a city law limiting the size of homeless shelters to 200 beds.

Still, «the most pressing issue in our city of this generation is affordable housing,» James said; she stated that in her second term, she would work to address that problem, whether through making «preferential rent» permanent (rather than something a landlord can change or remove at whim), or creating more housing, rather than shelters, for homeless New Yorkers.

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

A state agency directed New York City to toughen security at its emergency homeless shelters following the fatal stabbings yesterday of a mother and her young children at a Staten Island hotel used to house the homeless.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, ManhattaAt 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattaat public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At the turn of the year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order mandating cities statewide to give homeless people shelter when temperatures hit 32 degrees.

At a City Council hearing last week, Taylor was unable to say how many homeless people were currently living on the streets — which de Blasio pegged at 3,000 to 4,000 — or had entered city shelters since he was appointeAt a City Council hearing last week, Taylor was unable to say how many homeless people were currently living on the streets — which de Blasio pegged at 3,000 to 4,000 — or had entered city shelters since he was appoinCity Council hearing last week, Taylor was unable to say how many homeless people were currently living on the streets — which de Blasio pegged at 3,000 to 4,000 — or had entered city shelters since he was appointeat 3,000 to 4,000 — or had entered city shelters since he was appoincity shelters since he was appointed.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER By unanimous votes on March 7, the City Council approved three measures aimed at strengthening shelter options for homeless youth in New York, including a long contested move to raise the age limit for eligibility in youth shelters to include those 21 to 24 years old.

Cuomo took another swipe at NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's handling of the homeless, charging that people live in the streets because they're afraid of the city's «dangerous» shelters.

At noon, Sen. Leroy Comrie joins the NAACP, National Action Network and others to call on the administration to stop the placement of homeless shelters in southeast Queens, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 1 p.m., Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Coalition for Homeless Youth will be joined by elected officials and advocates to call for increased funding in the state budget for homeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, MaHomeless Youth will be joined by elected officials and advocates to call for increased funding in the state budget for homeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, Mahomeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

An internal report obtained by NY1 show violence and arrests at New York City homeless shelters has jumped in 2016.

In response to an audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted the state previously had not been aggressive enough in tackling poor conditions at NYC homeless shelters, but nonetheless still laid a large share of the blame on the city.

The mayor's announcement comes just after the City Council unveiled a report and a package of legislation aimed at reforming the city's Fair Share policies, which provide a set of guidelines and require public outreach before the city sites «challenging facilities,» including homeless sheltCity Council unveiled a report and a package of legislation aimed at reforming the city's Fair Share policies, which provide a set of guidelines and require public outreach before the city sites «challenging facilities,» including homeless sheltcity's Fair Share policies, which provide a set of guidelines and require public outreach before the city sites «challenging facilities,» including homeless sheltcity sites «challenging facilities,» including homeless shelters.

Albanese, a lawyer, said the city often refused to indemnify public workers for actions taken «outside the scope of their employment,» and cited a case he handled on behalf of two security guards at an Upper Manhattan homeless shelter.

About 30 protestors from the neighborhood, along with City Council Member Letitia James, State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery and pop singer Crystal Waters, who sang her hit «Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless),» protested last week in front of the shelter and down the street from it at Freddy's Bar (which is also facing condemnation for the project).

In April, the city opted to kick out roughly 200 homeless New Yorkers from a two - building emergency shelter on the Upper West Side, freeing up at least 100 affordable housing units slated for low - income residents, as previously reported.

The Doe Fund, a nonprofit organization based in Manhattan, was selected by the city to develop a 200 - bed homeless shelter at the Muller Army Reserve Center, a former military base on Nereid Avenue in Wakefield.

The city is vacating roughly 200 homeless New Yorkers from a two - building emergency shelter on the Upper West Side, freeing up at least 100 affordable housing units slated for low - income residents, according to a report.

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.»

Both Taylor and the city's Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steve Banks testified Wednesday that the city is pumping an «unprecedented» amount of money, time and effort into addressing the city's sizable homeless population, which is now estimated at roughly 58,000 people in shelters, and more than 3,000 people on city streets.

Faulkner called for a city - residency requirement to be housed in the shelter system to reduce abuse by out - of - towners, and said he'd even house the homeless at City Hall until the issue gets resolcity - residency requirement to be housed in the shelter system to reduce abuse by out - of - towners, and said he'd even house the homeless at City Hall until the issue gets resolCity Hall until the issue gets resolved.

This is the latest in a series of increases to the Department of Homeless Services capital budget to deal with major deficiencies and repair needs at the city's homeless shelters, which have recently received a great deal of political attention from the mayor and Gov. AndreHomeless Services capital budget to deal with major deficiencies and repair needs at the city's homeless shelters, which have recently received a great deal of political attention from the mayor and Gov. Andrehomeless shelters, which have recently received a great deal of political attention from the mayor and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Another mayor, Ed Koch, took heat in 1987 when he and Staten Island Borough President Ralph Lamberti made a deal in which the city would build a jail for 1,000 inmates at the Rossville site in exchange for not building four homeless shelters in the borough.

Officials also commandeered city hotels for use as auxiliary homeless shelters, mostly recently the Verve at 40 - 03 29th Street in Long Island Ccity hotels for use as auxiliary homeless shelters, mostly recently the Verve at 40 - 03 29th Street in Long Island CityCity.

«More than 83,000 New York City school kids experienced homelessness at some point in the past year and an average of 23,000 children sleep in the City's homeless shelters each night,» said Borough President KATZ.

Under the contract, the shelter at 316 W. 95th St., known as Freedom House, will have only 200 beds, as opposed to the 400 beds it currently offers, according to City Comptroller Scott Stringer's Office and the Department of Homeless Services.

Gov. Cuomo slammed the city homeless shelter system as «deplorable» and accused Mayor de Blasio's administration of mismanaging it after revelations of out of control violence at shelters.

Last week, Cuomo, who has feuded with the mayor at every turn, told the Observer that the comptroller's scathing audits of his economic development programs were not valid given his background as a state assemblyman, despite the fact that he appointed DiNapoli to oversee the city's homeless shelter system.

City Councilman Andy King, however, appeared to ignite them recently, when he organized a protest against the same Stagg Group behind the shelter coming to Broadway, but for a building that already houses formerly homeless people at 3677 White Plains Road, in Wakefield.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelcity into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelCity Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelcity (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

De Blasio said the city has already begun to increase security at homeless shelters.

Mayor de Blasio and one of his most bitter rivals, former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, took a yuletide step toward mending fences Wednesday at a gift drive for a Brooklyn homeless shelter.

The city is considering doubling the capacity of the Pamoja House homeless shelter, at 357 Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford - Stuyvesant, making room for 400...

When I took a group of at - risk high - school boys from the inner - city of Chicago to volunteer at a homeless shelter, numerous residents commended the boys, telling them «It's so great to see you all in here helping people instead of being out on the street gang - banging.»

A social worker at a women's homeless shelter in New York City contacted me about a resident of the shelter who wanted to sue her former employers for unpaid wages.

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The city recently opened three large tented shelters that can hold about 700 people, and White said the many people who showed up at Project Homeless Connect demonstrated there still are many more people in need.

Given the outrageous dog and cat overpopulation in Houston, BARC Animal Shelter of the City of Houston has created a Pet Responsibility Program that encompasses several programs aimed at educating different grade levels, in the hopes of tackling and reducing the number of stray and homeless animals in our streets.

The SPCA of Brazoria County is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit animal welfare organization that provides a safe environment for the lost, abandoned, and homeless animals of the cities of Freeport, Clute, and Lake Jackson at the Southern Brazoria County Animal Shelter in Lake Jackson.

The ASPCA has established Safety Net programs at two L.A. animal shelters, Baldwin Park Animal Care Center and Downey Animal Care Center, to help these locations — and in turn the city and county — curb their homeless animal intake.

In 1999, in response to an 85 % death rate at the city shelter, she started EmanciPET, a low cost and free spay / neuter clinic in an effort to decrease the number of homeless animals.