Sentences with phrase «fighting homelessness»

«From helping our local Easter Seals programs to fighting homelessness and supplying some emergency relief for those who fall through the gaps — people we learn about from stories gathered by our agents — we encourage our agents to initiate those requests for assistance from our grant fund.»

May 2018 How Philadelphia is fighting homelessness as the weather gets warmer.

Forget that «I think I can» mantra — there are a ton of charitable causes worth running for, from fighting homelessness to raising money for cancer research.

For City Hall, fighting homelessness comes with a heavy price tag: the de Blasio administration in one instance paid more than $ 600 per night to put homeless families up in Times Square hotels.

Termed the «New York Promise Agenda,» the broad - based proposals include criminal justice reform, voting access, women's rights protections, fighting homelessness, preventing faith - based discrimination, protecting the environment, and improving immigrants rights and access to education.

There's also some chatter about how Cuomo's signature issue for a long time — fighting homelessness — gets largely overlooked in this budget.

Many of the proposals have trickled out over the last two weeks, but the governor made news by fleshing out his agenda for public ethics and fighting homelessness.

When de Blasio unveiled his $ 78.3 billion executive budget on May 7, he touted investments in affordable housing, struggling schools, and fighting homelessness, while firmly rejecting the Council's call to to hire additional police officers.

«This governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing and it's under his leadership that New York is implementing an unprecedented $ 20 billion anti-homelessness and housing problem, twice strengthened rent protections with Assembly Democrats and created a tenant protection unit that placed more than 6,000 buildings and 61,000 units back under rent stabilization,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

«The governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said.

A Cuomo official on Wednesday in an email detailed the length of each applause line paired with the issue that garnered the audience reaction, including 24 seconds when Cuomo praised first responders, seven seconds when he gave a shout out to Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, 10 seconds when he vowed to defend the Roe v. Wade decision, 11 seconds when he vowed to fight homelessness and more than a full minute of combined applause for Akeem Browder when he was recognized.

New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have announced the state's receipt of federal grant money to fight homelessness.

Cuomo, in the January 13th speech, also proposed a $ 10 billion effort over 5 years to fight homelessness, with 20,000 new beds and supportive housing units over the next 15 years.

In the January 13 speech, Cuomo also proposed a $ 10 billion effort over five years to fight homelessness, with 20,000 new beds and supportive housing units over the next 15 years.

Cuomo was in Bed - Stuy on Tuesday for a Campaign Against Hunger event, and couldn't help complaining about de Blasio's new $ 2.6 billion plan to fight homelessness.

Malliotakis rolled out a plan to fight homelessness that she said would involve building no new shelters and spending no new money — but some of the ideas are already in practice, while others could prove unrealistic.

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi slammed Cuomo for criticizing de Blasio's management of NYC's homelessness problem and ripped the governor for dramatically reducing state funding to fight both homelessness and poverty.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE With the New York State legislative session ending without an agreement on how to spend billions that Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed be used to fight homelessness, advocates and their allies are pummeling the governor for breaking a promise.

There was support for the extra funding promised to fight homelessness and also improve flood defences, although Corbyn was keen to blame both issues on the Conservative government.

In a statement, Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Sarah Paden said «Someone should actually show Ms. Nixon New York's housing laws — they were strengthened both times they were up for renewal under this governor, who also secured a record $ 20 billion in state funding to fight homelessness and build affordable housing.»

Cuomo, in the January 13th speech, also proposed a $ 10 billion dollar effort over 5 years to fight homelessness, with 20,000 new beds and supportive housing units over the next 15 years.

Among the other issues that were under discussion was $ 1 billion in additional money to fight homelessness, expanding ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft to upstate, and enacting reforms to the procurement process.

Not exact matches

Matt explained that animal cruelty and homelessness are two major focus areas and some of the key issues include dog - fighting and puppy mills.

«Throughout this and other gay - marriage campaigns, some queer activists have expressed their own discomfort about feeling obligated to fight for an institution about which they feel ambivalent while other essential battles — against HIV / AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and general discrimination — struggle for money and media attention,» wrote Deirdre Fulton in the Portland Phoenix.

«They give a few dollars to some group that claims they're fighting the evils of (fill in the blank with words like homelessness, drinking, drug addiction, prostitution, homosexuality) because they feel guilty, but they're afraid to come near us.

Yes, because homelessness and actual sin like stealing, cheating, murder, isn't worth fighting for, but people born gay, no matter how kind and loving and helpful, now there's something you can gang up on, easy pray right?

Keisha Wood fought back tears as she explained how she was on the brink of homelessness after...

«To fight it, we must keep our focus on the socioeconomic factors that have allowed it to continue for all of these years ---- poverty, homelessness, and a lack of access to healthcare.»

Bonus: The state unlocked $ 2.5 billion in promised funds to boost affordable housing and supportive housing production, both critical to the long - term fight against surging homelessness.

The mayor lost on virtually every front last year and the governor is already picking fights with him on new items — like funding for homelessness and the MTA capital plan.

«I will continue to fight for the issues I brought up during the campaign, particularly the need to reform our property tax structure, the need for transit, and address the increasing rates of homelessness and mental illness in our community,» said Malliotakis.

And they will be used in the fight against homelessness.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's second year in office was dominated by a series of bruising political fights and a continual struggle to control the perception of crime, homelessness and the city's quality of life.

In his 2017 budget, to be presented today, President Obama will propose spending $ 11 billion over the next 10 years to fight family homelessness, a phenomenon that is closely linked to the dearth of affordable housing in New York and other big cities.

De Blasio's second year in office was dominated by a series of bruising political fights and a continual struggle to control the perception of crime, homelessness and the city's quality of life.

In his fight against the homelessness crisis, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to add 300 beds in shelters for older teenagers, a group advocates say is underserved, with 100 new beds a year over the next three years.

Two veteran Democrats are challenging Mr. de Blasio in the primary: Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens who has challenged the mayor's approach to homelessness and fought for a Staten Island family trying to keep a large pig as a pet; and Sal Albanese, an Italian - born lawyer and former City Councilman from southwestern Brooklyn who, in his third mayoral run, has argued for a new tax on nonprimary residences — a «pied - à - terre» tax — to help fund affordable housing.

Ms. Mark - Viverito said the Council would also expand already working programs, like the Court - Based Homelessness Prevention Project, which fights on behalf of families facing eviction in housing court.

It is also the latest salvo in two days of open fighting between the state's two most prominent Democrats over homelessness.

The mayor's poll numbers dropped last year amidst a bruising fight with Uber, a public feud with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and questions about his handling of the homelessness crisis.

Cyrus explained to the legislators that she launched the foundation last year «to rally young people to fight injustice, starting with youth homelessness.»

In a recent interview with DNAinfo New York reporters and editors, Comptroller Scott Stringer criticized the mayor for not engaging communities in the fight against homelessness.

... As the administration fights to reduce a surge in homelessness and reform its children's services approach, the mayor has increasingly seized on success stories from the business community, like record job growth and tourism.

In April, the mayor announced that Banks, who has frequently fought with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office over homelessness issues, would handle all city services for the homeless moving forward.

We addressed the urgency of the situation, Mayor de Blasio's affordable housing plan, and ways that average citizens can fight back against the deepening crisis of homelessness.

Will you join us in this fight to reduce homelessness?

If elected, Henry said he wants to fight to eradicate homelessness, not just build new shelters in neighborhoods like East New York.

Examples of NewsHour segments include «Fighting Student Homelessness» and «School Police: What's Their Role?

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