Sentences with phrase «homeless families»

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

The high payments, and often the bad management of the buildings, drives rent - regulated tenants out and more and more homeless families in.

The shipping out of homeless families has, until now, been happening behind closed doors.

It also runs cluster - site housing, where city contractors lease individual apartments from a landlord to house homeless families.

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

The apartment building will be 100 percent affordable, and 12 apartments will be set aside for formerly homeless families, he said.

Price said many students come from homeless families and suffer from stress due to unstable living environments.

The organization also provides food for working homeless families who live in their vehicles, and pet food for their pets.

Nonetheless, family homelessness often goes unseen as most homeless families do not live on the street.

Apartments should be leased to homeless families instead, they say, with the help of a rental subsidy.

At least 25 councils have received homeless families without being properly notified by the councils that sent the families.

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

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 serves as one of the primary contacts between homeless families and school staff, district personnel, shelter workers, and other service providers.

Our school is located just a few blocks from a large tent city full of homeless families.

The city is arranging a deal for 800 private apartments it has used to house homeless families.

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.

** Instead, most homeless families are transient, living in shelters, in cars, in hotels in the city's poorest neighborhoods, or staying with friends or family members.

Berry also single - handedly raised $ 1.4 million to found Hope Gardens, a transitional apartment complex which helps homeless families get on their feet.

Advocates and elected officials want the mayor to designate 2,500 a year to move homeless families out of city shelters...

«Helping families fighting homelessness and ending the practice of putting homeless families into hotels and motels has been a priority for us.

Nevertheless, the big hotel lobby has fought this common - sense solution at every turn, denying the state millions in an effort to protect their billion - dollar businesses from competition, even as they accept millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies and hundreds of millions more to house homeless families at exorbitant rates.

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.

The NYT takes a closer look at the latest disagreement between de Blasio and Cuomo over state funding for restoration of a rent subsidy program to help homeless families stay out of shelters.

They were wed in St. Edwards church, the formerly abandoned cathedral into which homeless families relocated in 1995, launching the beginning of the Simple Way community and a new phase of faith - based justice making.

For a newspaper in Wisconsin, a local woman who works with homeless families got the nod.

David also carries out Community Care work including homeless families who have no recourse to public funds.

Other significant allocations included $ 28.4 million for rental assistance to move homeless families out of shelters, and $ 35.3 million to reduce violence in the city's jails.

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.

At the same time Gov. Andrew Cuomo has criticized NYC's handling of the homeless, a new audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office, set for release today, knocks his administration for oversight failure that has left many homeless families and adults living in squalor.

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

The scheme developed out of networking between the manager of the two Children's Centres, Suzy Turner - Jones, and the local homeless families unit, where residents were complaining of isolation and a lack of support when leaving the unit.

The state Senate is opening an investigation into the de Blasio administration's exporting of New York City homeless families to other parts of the state.

Armagh House provides second stage housing to abused women and children and Peel Family Shelter supports homeless families.

The de Blasio administration is illegally shipping homeless families off to unsuspecting, upstate towns with a year of free rent — forcing those municipalities to pick up the rest of their living expenses, Broome County officials said.

The de Blasio administration is illegally shipping homeless families off to unsuspecting, upstate towns with a year of free rent — forcing those municipalities to pick up the rest of their living expenses, Broome County officials said Thursday.

An autumn snapshot survey last year recorded 4,134 rough sleepers, while the number of homeless families approaching councils and being assessed as entitled to temporary accommodation rose by 48 per cent to 59,090.

Aside from operating shelters, BEDCO also runs cluster site housing, where homeless families are placed in apartment units in privately owned buildings.

«It is time to stop dumping homeless families and individuals in hotels and motels throughout the City without support services and the prospect of stable long - term housing and without community notification or involvement.»

The comptroller then returned to the homelessness issue, hitting the mayor's administration for lodging homeless families in motels, which have had recurring safety problems and often lack necessary facilities.

On Wednesday afternoon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer called for an «immediate and thorough review of the safety and conditions of every commercial hotel being used to house homeless families throughout all five boroughs,» in order to provide a «complete accounting» of what the city plans to do to ensure the shelters are protected.

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.

These are the services that take top priority when helping homeless families achieve self sufficiency.

In recent years, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless has found DC officials shutting the door on homeless families through «unlawful procedures that have created almost insurmountable obstacles.»