Sentences with phrase «deny homeless families»

Her lawsuit argues that these types of hotels are illegal because they effectively deny homeless families their legal right to access cooking facilities.

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``... Up to 40 % of all homeless youth identify as LGBT,» she writes, «and of those, almost 80 % left because their families rejected them when they came out... There are more than 1100 federal benefits denied to same - sex couples... LGBT youth are five times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers... That's a real injustice.»

In a letter to DHS, Quinn states that the agency's «Code Red» and «Code Blue» policy — which is trigged by dangerously hot or cold temperatures and ensures «homeless single adults» shelter at such times — wrongly denies the same protections to homeless families, including those with children.

As a result of this continuous displacement, homeless people are denied the ability to «obtain the basic necessities of life, including survival, shelter, rest and sleep, community and family, access to safer living spaces, and freedom from the risks and effects of exposure and sleep deprivation».

Finally, volunteers connect families who believe they have been unlawfully denied shelter or who have suffered from other legal violations to legal counsel at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless so that an attorney can try to assist them.

i had twin sons; aged 13; in my care at the time; all children were mine biologically.i was a single mother; had no family in new jersey.my sons were on aid for dependent children.i could have notified.teacher was awarded temp.custody; on no legal grounds; august 25th, 1977; of 3 months; and i three months supervised visits; although d.y.f.s. never presented any evidence i was unfit.i still have all papers from 1976 to 2012; when i contacted assignment judge costello (2012); from courts; that i contacted from 1977 to 2000 «pro se; and all civil actions were dismissed without being heard.i was denied due process.the teacher hid my daughter after my visits; for 22 years before i relocated to n.y.c.; and took my sons west near relatives; because the teacher took the s.s.i i had been getting for my daughter (1979); and the aid for dependent children was closed the same year; leaving us homeless; moving from county to county; where welfare was terminated in each county; until we were forced out of new jersey.i found my daughter in 1999; with the help of raymond t. dutcher; agent of n.c.i.c.; n.y.c.; and senator donald t. francesco; and learning disability of new jersey; living apart from the teacher in morristown, n.j. in 1999.