Sentences with phrase «homeless families in the city»

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«Living in New York City, my family and I encounter the homeless almost every day.

New York City's top social services official said that while locals in Broome County are griping about five homeless families relocated to their area, the city continues caring for 20 others from the same regCity's top social services official said that while locals in Broome County are griping about five homeless families relocated to their area, the city continues caring for 20 others from the same regcity continues caring for 20 others from the same region.

All of the members live at the Sleep Inn in Queens, where the city has taken over all 10 floors to accommodate about 100 homeless families.

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

Homeless families got an upscale Christmas Eve lunch just days before City Hall restaurant in lower Manhattan shuts its doors for good.

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

«This Executive Order adds no legal or financial resources to New York City's programs to assist the homeless, and merely requires all New York State localities follow many of the same requirements as New York City to shelter families and individuals in need in freezing temperatures.»

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 childCity 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 childcity needs to formulate a comprehensive plan to stop the homeless crisis affecting families and children.

«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.»

NEW YORK — Extreme weather conditions can provide even more severe hardships for already strained homeless families in New York City — including being left out in the freezing cold, according to elected officials.

► The city will help move 500 homeless families out of shelters into stable, affordable housing through the Living in Communities voucher program.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has long criticized New York City's use of privately owned apartment buildings to house homeless families, and his administration has, in its first six months, taken steps to reduce the amount that the city pays for these unCity's use of privately owned apartment buildings to house homeless families, and his administration has, in its first six months, taken steps to reduce the amount that the city pays for these uncity pays for these units.

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 sheltCity from using state funds to subsidize rents for homeless families leaving city - run sheltcity - run shelters.

Nearly three months after Gilbert Taylor resigned as the commissioner of homeless services amid record levels of homelessness in New York City, de Blasio has named him a judge in Family Court.

One of the homeless shelters run by Housing Enterprise for Less Privileged (HELP), founded by Cuomo in 1986, racked up 31 critical incidents last year — the most of any of the so - called Tier 2 family shelters in the city, according to a review of internal records by the Daily News.

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.

ALBANY — At the same time Gov. Cuomo has criticized the city's handling of the homeless, a new audit set for release Tuesday knocks his administration for oversight failure that has left many homeless families and adults living in squalor.

It cost $ 2 million to house the families in Staten Island, but Matteo and Oddo called on the city to end the program because of the stress it placed on homeless children that required services local schools didn't have.

It should reject, the legislature should reject, an ill - considered proposal in the governor's budget for homeless programs,» Mr. de Blasio said, claiming it could leave 500 city families in shelters or on the street.

In its affordable housing plan, the city has allocated 750 apartments for families leaving homeless shelters.

There, he was introduced by Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need, a non-profit that serves homeless families headed up by women.

In a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.&raquIn a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.&raquin Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.»

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 80» and 90's, Westchester County purposely move people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

As of December 2015, the city had 577 rooms reserved for temporary homeless housing across 20 hotels in the city for single adults, and 527 rooms across 25 different hotels for families with children, who stay in the hotels for an average of 10 days at a time.

«The city has grappled for years with the need to house homeless families and has dealt with it by rewarding unscrupulous landlords offering rooms for hire in SROs with unconscionable, sky - high payments,» she said.

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 protecCity 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 proteccity plans to do to ensure the shelters are protected.

De Blasio added that he would like a «family - based model» to play a larger part in solving the city's homeless crisis, with financial resources given to relatives to help homeless individuals.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 1980» and 90's, Westchester County purposely moved people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

Analysis submitted by the IBO predicts that in 2017, city - funded spending to shelter homeless families and adults will cost $ 101 million more than currently budgeted under the mayor's plan.

Stringer's audit says that the city has been placing «homeless families with children in shelters plagued by rodents, mold, peeling paint, and broken windows,» among other structural and maintenance problems.

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

New York City's top social services official on Tuesday said that while locals in Broome County are griping about five homeless families relocated to their area, the city continues caring for 20 others from the same regCity's top social services official on Tuesday said that while locals in Broome County are griping about five homeless families relocated to their area, the city continues caring for 20 others from the same regcity continues caring for 20 others from the same region.

Queens State Senator Tony Avella gathered a dozens - strong crowd outside the Holiday Inn Express in Maspeth, Queens — the site of a bitter battle over the city's effort to lodge homeless families — to launch a quixotic bid to beat Mayor Bill de Blasio in next fall's Democratic primary, accusing the liberal leader of an arrogant «top - down» approach that ignores the needs of local communities.

«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,» Avella said.

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.

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.

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.

If the current homeless rate among families continues in New York City, one in seven school - aged children will be homeless at some point during elementary school.

This report builds on the work of the 2015 Atlas of Student Homelessness in New York City by examining the disparities in absenteeism and its impact on educational achievement, comparing homeless students and their housed peers, regardless of family income level.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2016 — For homeless students with nowhere to go after school and low - income students whose families can't afford computers or internet access, free afterschool homework centers in 34 branches of the Los Angeles Public Library across the city provide a safe haven.

On the second Saturday of each month, we're taking over two cozy indoor spaces near the fountain at The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City to help homeless dogs and cats find their new families.

The devastating tornadoes that left hundreds homeless in the Oklahoma City metro area Monday also separated many families from their beloved pets.

Last night, a fire broke out at a house on Curassow Street in Belize City leaving a family of nine homeless.

The poorest family (not a homeless drug abuser or psychiatric case) living in any American city lives better than the vast majority of ordinary people in poor developing nations.

New York City partner and firmwide pro bono partner Stacey Slater is highlighted among the newest members of the Board of Directors of Family Promise, a national nonprofit headquartered in Summit, NJ, that helps homeless families.

In honor of Good Friday, volunteers are serving up Thanksgiving - style meals to homeless people and hungry families in Hollywood and other cities in South FloridIn honor of Good Friday, volunteers are serving up Thanksgiving - style meals to homeless people and hungry families in Hollywood and other cities in South Floridin Hollywood and other cities in South Floridin South Florida.

These range from working with victims of domestic violence, including children, to feeding and clothing the impoverished families in the heart of the city, working with Chicago's overnight homeless women's shelters, teaching at - risk high school students in Chicago Public Schools and also working in other elementary school settings.