Sentences with phrase «for homeless families»

Just one is a traditional shelter for homeless families with the greatest need.

The city ended its rental subsidy program for homeless families, called Advantage, in 2011 after it lost state and federal funding.

Family options study: Short - term impacts of housing and services interventions for homeless families.

Housing: The state will create a preference for homeless families for turnover units in the state - administered Section 8 housing program.

But many landlords have refused to take the vouchers, even though it's illegal to do so, making it harder for homeless families to find apartments and get out of shelters.

The city already conducts similar reviews for homeless families.

While a similar policy exists for homeless families, council members and advocates note that homeless single adults are a far more vulnerable group — with high levels of substance abuse and mental illness.

This is not about simple community service, like collecting cans of food for homeless families during the holidays, although that is critically important in its own right.

The local liaison should remind preschool program staff of how important preschool services are for homeless children and how waiting lists often create barriers for homeless families who wish to enroll their children.

But a few weeks ago, the board was informed that the building instead would be used as a transitional shelter for homeless families.

The organization bills itself as the largest provider of shelter and supportive housing for homeless families in New York City.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

De Blasio's administration is requesting a change in the budgetary language that prevents New York City from using state funds to subsidize rents for homeless families leaving city - run shelters.

«Chestnut Commons» will have units set aside for homeless families and an array of community facilities.

Access to Early Childhood Development Services for Homeless Families with Young Children: An Exploratory Project.

HUD is continuing to challenge local communities to reexamine their response to homelessness and give greater weight to proven strategies, from promoting «Housing First» to providing «rapid re-housing» for homeless families with children and permanent supportive housing for those experiencing chronic homelessness.

She was the founder and director of an independent Early Childhood Program, Director of a child care center for Homeless families in New York City, and a consultant and trainer for America Reads.

In July 2007, Fenton Avenue Charter School welcomed the first residents of Hope Gardens, the Union Rescue Mission's interim housing complex for homeless families providing Fenton with over one hundred students.

While the organization she started initially focused on providing parenting education programs and resources, over the years it has become a top professional development training provider for preschool and afterschool educators in Massachusetts, and in the past decade, a central provider of workplace development for homeless families.

As Riker's Island became empty of criminals, we could repurpose it as a sanctuary for homeless families or undocumented immigrant children.

Such is the pressure to find flats for homeless families in London and Greater London that councils must often compete with each other for the grottiest places.

The mayor also asked lawmakers to urge the state to increase the shelter allowance for homeless families, the amount of aid the state provides for families who receive a subsidy under a program called the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement, or FEPS.

«The lack of progress for our homeless families and failure to change the status quo is deeply concerning to me and to all New Yorkers,» he said.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito did not blame Governor Andrew Cuomo for keeping the city from using state funds to pay for homeless families» rental subsidies.

Also at 10 a.m., tenants and housing activists, New York Communities for Change and others call out BFC Partners for not building housing for homeless families on public land in the Crown Heights neighborhood, 1322 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn.

Eighteen members of the City Council yesterday sent a joint letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio urging him to set aside more than 2,500 units of public housing per year for homeless families.

Quinn proposed shifting resources towards subsidized housing units for homeless families which cost $ 800 per month compared to the $ 3,000 it takes to keep that family in a shelter.

«I thank the mayor for putting WIN on the supportive housing task force so we could really have a loud voice for homeless families,» she said.

The information was released as Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to build 90 new shelters across the city while moving away from hotel - based shelters, which often lack kitchens and other necessary facilities for homeless families.

«No one is being turned away,» Diamond insisted, arguing that the city has used the same approach for homeless families for the past 16 years.

The premise for the Iranian drama is an abandoned oil tanker moored in the Persian Gulf that becomes a hostel for homeless families.

With an average income of $ 5,000 to $ 6,000 a year for a family of three or four, it is difficult for homeless families to afford clothing, health expenses, education, and a place to live.

«Creating a safe, free preschool and educational environment for homeless families is a vital ingredient to breaking the cycle of homelessness,» said Bob Fogel, HGSE dean of administration.

The community supports our annual compassion projects, which include collecting hats and mittens for homeless families, making gift bags for senior citizens and conducting a pet food and book drives.

In 2012, Family Promise partnered with pet supply retailer PetSmart to create PetSmart Promise, a program that provides options for homeless families to keep their pets while on the road to stable housing.

This means that solicitors (and barristers) will have to decide whether to carry out the work for a homeless family, a person facing removal, a disabled client refused community care services etc, at the risk of not being paid for the substantial work in judicial review cases.

And it's these characteristics that helped her single - handedly raise $ 1.4 million to found Hope Gardens, a transitional apartment complex for homeless families trying to get on their feet.

A small handful of landlords, including the owner of a Bronx building where two infants were killed last week in a radiator accident, account for an outsized share of dangerous violations in the city's private - apartment program for homeless families.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today blamed «miscommunication» for his administration's latest spat with the governor over a deal that would allow the state to subsidize rents for homeless families to transition out of the city's crammed shelter system.

Adapting and Pilot Testing a Parenting Intervention for Homeless Families in Transitional Housing.

City Council members also pressed Mr. Taylor on how many NYCHA and Section 8 units will be set aside for homeless families; Mr. Levin said under Mayor Rudy Giuliani 3,418 NYCHA units were set aside from the homeless and in the last year of the Bloomberg administration before they halted the practice, 3,600 were set aside.

This is revenue that New York could dedicate to services for homeless families, as Los Angeles and Chicago have done.

The determination of the folks behind the First Baptist Church of Leesburg combined with the generosity of Lake County residents has started the process to convert a dumpy old motel into a center for homeless families.

Amazon has agreed to give a shelter for homeless families rent - free space in a new office building the company is constructing in Seattle.

Also protesting Cuomo's speech will be tenant groups, who are opposing his «failure to fight for stronger rent protections, his failure to release the funds he promised a year ago to build housing for homeless families, and his attempt to revive the wasteful 421 - a giveaway to his rich real estate developer friends.»

Only two city - run shelters remain on Staten Island — and just one is for homeless families with the greatest need.

Former City Council speaker Christine Quinn, president and CEO of Women in Need, the largest provider of shelters for homeless families in the city, said it's hard to tell how far this funding will go, but it's one of the largest capital allocations the system has seen.