Sentences with phrase «cuts for homelessness»
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As Mr. de Blasio did in Albany, Mr. Fuleihan today criticized the state budget for presenting cuts to homelessness programs, even as the number of New York City residents in shelters continues to rise.
«This is a direct result of decisions made by Conservative ministers: a steep drop in investment for affordable homes, crude cuts to housing benefit, reduced funding for homelessness services and a refusal to help private renters.»
«We must finish the job and pass a responsible budget that makes college tuition free for the middle class, fully funds our public schools, cuts taxes for the middle class, Raises the Age of criminal responsibility, combats homelessness, and moves New York forward.
The homelessness charity Crisis warned at the time that the sharp rise in temporary benefit cuts was «cruel and can leave people utterly destitute — without money even for food and at severe risk of homelessness».
«The scale of the reductions they are making mean we are seeing cuts to, for example, housing benefit which really threatens homelessness and poverty,» he told Channel 4 News.
Freud did not expand on his thinking but some housing experts have predicted the government may need to change the definition of homelessness to prevent local councils having to take responsibility for housing benefit recipients unable to pay private sector rents as their housing benefit is cut.
Freud insisted plans to cut state support for the rents of the poor and unemployed in the private rented sector will not lead either to significant increases in homelessness, or to a rise in use of temporary accommodation.
Other issues were more contentious, but ultimately the negotiated budget increased funding to several key areas including: $ 28 million for safety improvements at the state's mental health hospitals; $ 7 million for recruiting new public school teachers and retaining existing ones; $ 190 million from the state's emergency fund to address damages from the last round of wildfires; $ 15 million to expand programs that combat homelessness; and, $ 8 million to backfill tuition cuts made to state colleges and universities during the 2015 session.
The ABA president raised concerns about access to justice for veterans — many of whom face homelessness due to legal concerns — as well as concerns about planned cuts to federal legal services funding.