UPPER WEST SIDE — Hundreds of community members and elected leaders accused city officials of rushing
controversial emergency homeless shelters into West 95th Street under false pretenses at a meeting Wednesday.
ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by Commissioner of Social Services Carol Dankert - Maurer and Executive Director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center Marlies A. Wesolowski to cut the ribbon on Hope House, a
new emergency homeless shelter located at 586 Genesee Street in Buffalo at the site of a former daycare and banquet facility.
It's also hurting the most vulnerable among us — eliminating low - income rental subsidies and
emergency homeless shelters, reducing unemployment benefits, squeezing federal aid for poor schools, and cutting nutrition assistance for poor women and infants.
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.
About 74 people in Onondaga and Oswego counties between the ages of 18 - 24 are staying in
emergency homeless shelters, according to a 2015 report from the Housing and Homeless Coalition of Syracuse and Onondaga county.