Sentences with phrase «city homeless shelters»

George, a man on the decline, enters the New York City homeless shelter system when he runs out of options.

The mayor said Cuomo has gone after him many times — including when the state suddenly stepped up inspections and sought to cut off funding of city homeless shelters in May.

Bronx Councilmember Ritchie Torres led the drive to improve overdose prevention at city homeless shelters and other facilities servicing at - risk populations.

In the application, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO New York, Bharara's office wrote that it had first sought information about the housing authority and city homeless shelters from the health department in November of 2015, but it said it could not respond to the request without a court order.

Department of Homeless Services (DHS) working to repair city homeless shelters.

In a City Council Hearing last week, Taylor could not give an accurate number for the amount of people living on city streets, or for the number of admissions to city homeless shelters since de Blasio took office.

Despite balking yesterday at the Observer's query about the city right to counsel bill, Mr. de Blasio argued then that the city's total investment in tenant services — expected to hit $ 60 million in the 2017 fiscal year --» pays for itself» by reducing strain on city homeless shelters and hospitals, and today argued that such spending has a «huge multiplier effect.»

He said the state began inspecting city homeless shelters «with a vigor we had never seen before» as «revenge for some perceived slight.»

As homelessness has become the latest front in the rivalry between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, there is at least one thing that the State and the City agree on: New York City homeless shelters need improvement.

And one Utah couple, Steve and Carolyn Mintz, told the Salt Lake Tribune that the director of their adoption agency flew into a rage at a mother in labor who'd backed out of their adoption, and the mother and her infant ended up in a Salt Lake City homeless shelter.

But the upstagings and rank - pullings kept coming — from Cuomo's blindsiding of de Blasio with an Ebola quarantine to a last - minute request for $ 1 billion more in city transit funding to sudden inspections of city homeless shelters — and the rewards kept diminishing.

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

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.

A firm that manages dozens of city homeless shelters — including the Bronx site where two toddlers were killed by a radiator steam leak in December — has kept years of tax problems hidden from the city even as it continued to collect millions in taxpayer dollars.

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

PLAYSTREETS also extends to selected New York City homeless shelters, providing homeless youth with much - needed play time and opportunities for organized physical activity.

Under a new initiative, the state will deploy «certified recovery peer advocates» — recovering addicts with expertise in addiction services — to do outreach at New York City homeless shelters and provide guidance to substance abusers.

The number of people sleeping in New York City homeless shelters has risen to nearly 60,000, according to an official city count released today, reviving questions about the effectiveness of Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies to combat homelessness.

Mr. Cuomo, the mayor said, had acted vindictively toward the city, citing cuts in state financing for public housing and what he called an abrupt ramp - up of state inspections of city homeless shelters «with a vigor we had never seen before.»

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.

I work hard runnking my cities homeless shelter and impoving the lives of others.