Sentences with phrase «council as homeless»

If you have to leave the property, you can apply for housing from your council as a homeless family.

Over the course of last year the number of people approaching their council as homeless has risen by 15 %.

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Amazon halts an expansion effort in its hometown as the Seattle City Council prepares to vote on a new tax that would be levied on large business to pay for affordable housing and homeless - assistance programs.

In 2015, councils in England accepted 56,600 people as homeless.

Such officers «are absolutely obsessed» with deciding that homeless people have ruled themselves out of ongoing council help as a result of their own conduct — conduct which can include being evicted for rent arrears, or leaving a flat that a council officer feels the homeless person could have stayed in.

An autumn snapshot survey last year recorded 4,134 rough sleepers, while the number of homeless families approaching councils and being assessed as entitled to temporary accommodation rose by 48 per cent to 59,090.

Today's Council resolution was supported by homeless advocates, who cite the loss of Advantage, and the need for a replacement, as a significant factor in the city's rising homeless population.

Bill de Blasio's homeless commissioner, Gilbert Taylor, told the City Council this afternoon that he plans to travel to Albany tomorrow to lobby for permission to use state funds for rental subsidies, even as the Cuomo administration suggested it's too late for significant changes this year.

[44] Representing Norwood in the GLC, Livingstone continued as a Lambeth councillor and Vice Chairman of the Lambeth Housing Committee, criticising Lambeth council's dealings with the borough's homeless.

Adele Irving and fellow researcher Oliver Moss are conducting further research on the experiences of homeless people in the North East and will showcase this research at an exhibition as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's 2014 Festival of Social Science.

«We heard that many homeless people seeking support from their council are made to feel as if they were at fault and that councils can take steps to discourage applications.

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.

And Christine Quinn — the former council speaker who served as an advisor to Mr. Cuomo, ran against Mr. de Blasio for mayor and now leads for Women In Need, a nonprofit that helps homeless women and families — was quick to praise the governor's plan.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

Officials in attendance — including City Council members Elizabeth Crowley and Erich Ulrich, as well as State Sens. Joseph Adabbo, Tony Avella and Jose Peralta — were all careful to say they were not casting blame on the homeless.

Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who unsuccessfully battled Bill de Blasio for the Democratic mayoral nomination in 2013, is about two weeks away from taking over as head of a homeless service provider, Women in Need (WIN).

Council Speaker Christine Quinn pressed Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond over whether the state had --- as Diamond contended — actually approved the change.

Both the City Council and Controller Scott Stringer questioned the precipitously rising budget for the Department of Homeless Services Tuesday, even as the homeless population of about 61,000 New Yorkers has yet Homeless Services Tuesday, even as the homeless population of about 61,000 New Yorkers has yet homeless population of about 61,000 New Yorkers has yet to drop.

She is a member of multiple Boards of Directors, including Child Advocates of Fort Bend (where she also serves as chairperson of the Ambassador Council) and Parks Youth Ranch (a shelter for homeless and at - risk youth).

You will also have a problem with being re-housed by the council as they could treat you as having made yourself homeless voluntarily.

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Occupy Venice: A Town Hall Q & A A variety of social and political issues will be discussed, such as: the City Council Race, Boardwalk Restrictions, New Homeless Relief Projects and Homeowner Foreclosure Resistance.