Sentences with phrase «homeless crisis»

Cuomo has said he will outline steps to combat the city's homeless crisis in his State of the State speech Wednesday.

Whether it's as serious as the city's ongoing homeless crisis, or as picayune as the fate of a one - antlered deer, there is no limit to the lengths these two will go to outdo one another.

But by his own admission, de Blasio has botched the city's growing homeless crisis — a problem he long denied even existed, when The Post had proved otherwise.

Mayor Bill de Blasio finally admitted Tuesday that «we need to catch up with the reality» of the city's escalating homeless crisis — as he announced the abrupt exit of the commissioner responsible for helping New York's needy.

«The current homeless crisis impacts our local communities in so many ways, with school children and their parents bearing some of the greatest burdens,» Hevesi said.

Taxpayers are spending $ 1.7 billion in the current fiscal year on the Department of Homeless Services — after twice injecting extra cash totaling $ 287 million beyond what was in the city budget passed in June to deal with the burgeoning homeless crisis.

At 1:15 p.m., Malliotakis holds a press conference to discuss the NYC homeless crisis, East side of City Hall adjacent to the entrances for the 4, 5 & 6 Trains and opposite the David Dinkins Municipal Building, Manhattan.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio chalked a claim by the governor's office that de Blasio is failing to manage the city's homeless crisis up to «political posturing.»

During the last big homeless crisis of the eighties, by comparison, the shelter population topped out at 28,737.

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By spaying or neutering your pet, you help control the pet homeless crisis, which results in the unnecessary death of otherwise healthy dogs and cats simply because there are not enough homes to go around.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo convened several meetings this week at his Midtown Manhattan office with nonprofit groups and top members of his administration to discuss NYC's ongoing homeless crisis.

The Creedmoor idea, first reported by the New York Post a little more than a week ago, was among the plans Cuomo was considering as part of a larger initiative to address New York City's growing homeless crisis.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio finally admitted that «we need to catch up with the reality» of the city's escalating homeless crisis — as he announced the abrupt exit of the commissioner responsible for helping New York's needy.

So it is no surprise that we now have a homeless crisis in L.A. County.

Proving the old retail adage that location is everything, despite sky - high prices for hotels and restaurants, as well as the disgraceful city - allowed muck in the streets resulting from the homeless crisis, the stunning beauty of the San Francisco Bay and The City's splendid tourist attractions support a huge convention industry and vacuum up tourist money from around the world.

Councilman Mike Bonin told the Los Angeles Times, «It's time to get real, because this is literally a matter of life and death» explaining that there's been a «collective failure of every level of government to deal with what has been a homeless crisis for generations and is exploding and exacerbating now.»

As the nation's capital struggles with a homeless crisis, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson plans to introduce legislation as soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save cash.

«New Yorkers from all five boroughs are contributing to my campaign because they want a subway system that works, a solution to the homeless crisis and schools that educate and are safe,» she told The Post.

Last month, before the dinner, a Cuomo spokeswoman said, «Yes, it's clear that the mayor can't manage the homeless crisis, and the state does intend to step in.»

She then took aim at Albany, saying that elected officials «can't go to Albany and do one thing and then come back and talk about the homeless crisis.»

Cuomo and de Blasio have clashed on a host of issues over the past year, including the mayor's handling of the homeless crisis.

For years he denied that a homeless crisis even existed, and then suddenly proposed a $ 300 - million plan to dump homeless people in cluster sites in the middle of residential neighborhoods.

She hit de Blasio on the homeless crisis, the failure to stop child abuse and for going soft on illegal immigrants who commit crimes.

Today Malliotakis outlined a series of steps should she would take as mayor to address the «homeless crisis», including establishing «pop - up intake shelters,» creating an interagency taskforce, limiting the number of nights homeless individuals may be housed by the City in a hotel, seeking to move «empty nesters» in large NYCHA apartments into smaller apartments and entering into an agreement with New York State to fund supportive housing units.

The homeless crisis in New York City is only getting worse.»

«That's a big difference from Mayor de Blasio, who travels to Germany with a security contingent while subways are failing, a police officer had been murdered and a homeless crisis that's out of control.»

When asked about BEDCO, City Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a statement to DNAinfo that the city needs to formulate a comprehensive plan to stop the homeless crisis affecting families and children.

«As our homeless crisis spirals out of control, with our most vulnerable children and families at risk, the city doesn't have a game - plan.

In announcing his bid, Avella criticized de Blasio's handling of the homeless crisis and also the federal and state investigations of the mayor's fundraising.

The homelessness problem has fueled the bitter feud between de Blasio and Cuomo, with the governor's spokeswoman charging de Blasio «can't manage the homeless crisis» and Cuomo intends to step in with his own plan in the State of the State speech.

Diaz described them as two closely related issues that have come to dominate discussion in the city, claiming that New York was undoubtedly in the midst of a homeless crisis.

«Whatever Gilbert Taylor's qualifications may be, the appearance of using a Family Court judgeship as a soft landing for someone who botched the city's response to the homeless crisis is concerning,» said City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Queens), chair of the Committee on Courts & Legal Services.

Remedies proposed by Mayor de Blasio to the city's homeless crisis have yet to materialize in full force.

The mayor also addressed the homeless crisis, with more than $ 40 million in the budget earmarked for rental assistance, stable housing and drop in services.

Cuomo is also expected to address the city's homeless crisis.

Governor Cuomo has vowed to address the homeless crisis in his State of the State address.

As a war of words between the governor and the mayor escalated over the homeless issue, a spokesperson for Cuomo recently said the mayor can not manage the homeless crisis.

Families are staying longer than ever in an out - of - balance shelter system because NYC is ill - equipped to handle the homeless crisis, a report by The Doe Fund has found.

After a string of weeks in which City Hall has rolled out nearly a dozen new initiatives aimed at tackling the city's homeless crisis, New York City residents are starting to feel slightly better about how de Blasio is handling the city's homelessness problems, a new Q poll shows.

A Cuomo staffer, Barbara Brancaccio, spokeswoman of the governor's Office of Storm Recovery, blasted NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's handling of the homeless crisis in a scathing Facebook post last night.

A report found New York City's homeless crisis may cost more than what Mayor de BLasio is budgeting for in his spending plan.

Cuomo tore into the de Blasio administration's handling of the homeless crisis, saying that better «management» by the mayor was needed instead of just «throwing more money at the problem.»

At noon, elected officials and advocates will call on Cuomo to fund the creation of 35,000 units of supportive housing statewide, and stop politicizing New York City's homeless crisis, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

A new role for former city Council Speaker Christine Quinn has been to take on the city's homeless crisis.

In an exclusive interview with NY1 that covers topics ranging from Donald Trump to the city's homeless crisis, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio looks back over his first 23 months in office and concludes that, at times, he needs to do a better job communicating with New Yorkers.

De Blasio accused Cuomo of «political posturing» for questioning the city's ability to manage the homeless crisis, saying it's the state that has come up short.

«Yes, it's clear that the Mayor can't manage the homeless crisis and the State does intend to step in with both management expertise and resources in a plan to be released in the State of the State,» Cuomo spokeswoman Dani Lever said in a statement Wednesday.

Because Mayor Bill de Blasio «can't manage the homeless crisis» in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to «step in,» and will unveil a new plan to address homelessness during his state of the state address in early January, his office said Wednesday.