Sentences with phrase «homeless families unit»

This is how it works: • The Children's Centre manager identifies relevant agencies already dealing with vulnerable families — for example schools, health visitors or a local homeless families unit • A simple form summarising the facilities and activities available at the Centre, and asking for a parent's contact details and a signature, is created • The manager / staff at the other agency agree, as part of their usual data recording protocols, to ask relevant service users to fill in the form.

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.

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«Getting rid of cluster sites actually achieves two things — it gives places for families that are homeless to have services available to them, and it gives us back some of these affordable units that are so incredibly necessary,» said State Senator Gustavo Rivera.

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

As one of the largest faith - based developers of affordable housing in the country, Catholic Charities provides 2,900 units of housing for low - income seniors, families, and the formerly homeless and formerly homeless veterans throughout Brooklyn and Queens.

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 units.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has long criticized the use of privately owned apartment buildings to house homeless families, and his administration has taken steps to reduce the amount the city pays for these units.

October 18, 2016 — HELP USA and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, today were joined by New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) and the Office of Temporary Disability Assistance (OTDA), and partners to announce construction of 47 units of affordable housing for low income families and formerly homeless veterans in Buffalo.

Ms. Rosen suggested that one possibility might be to convert the many transitional shelters currently housing homeless families to permanent facilities, though there may be substantial resistance on the part of building owners, who are accustomed to charging the city upwards of $ 3,000 a month per room for shelter units and would likely have to settle for much less if they were converted to more stable housing.

He also recommended that the building have more permanent affordable housing — beyond the 166 units of affordable apartments included in the current plan — and suggested some units be set aside for formerly homeless families.

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.

Councilman Brad Lander said he would like to see at least 2,500 available NYCHA units set aside for homeless families, which would be approximately one - third of total units, the percentage that was previously set aside under Messrs. Giuliani and Bloomberg before preferential placements ended and the population boomed.

The Sugar Hill Project, as it is called, is also unique in that it combines an early childhood education center and children's museum in the 124 - unit residential building that will house formerly homeless and low - income families.

Today, both of those Mobile Units arrived back our Port Washington, N.Y. campus carrying a different kind of invaluable cargo — 30 homeless animals pulled from Dallas Animal Care Center to make room for all of the displaced dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens separated from their families in the wake of the storm.