Sentences with phrase «homelessness funding»

He announced $ 375 million to permanently extend homelessness funding to the states «with a continued focus on supporting young people and victims of domestic violence,» and said the government would restore the pensioner concession card to those affected by the recent assets test change.

The statement provides the first, if vague, indication of how Cuomo plans to respond to de Blasio's calls for increased state homelessness funding.

No, they hadn't made any decisions on homelessness funding.

This afternoon, speaking to the print and radio reporters, he again said he'd seen the governor seek out revenge — aggressively inspecting homeless shelters after the city pressed for more homelessness funding, to asking, a day before the city's executive budget, for an extra $ 1 billion for the MTA.

Opinion: With homelessness funding not tied to outcomes, tens of billions of new spending from Ottawa might not help nearly as much as it could

A homelessness fund will mean that unlike in neighbouring boroughs, poor people will not be shipped out of London as a result of housing benefit changes.

Not exact matches

Seattle is considering imposing a new 0.7 % payroll tax on large employers to fund affordable housing programs and reduce homelessness.

Amazon has halted a plan to build a new office tower in Seattle after the city proposed to introduce a tax to fund homelessness programs.

However, the more I researched this issue, the more I realized how central funding to support homelessness and addiction is to social policy at every level.

A Christian charity has received # 25,000 of funds raised from a sleepout held in Edinburgh overnight on Saturday to raise money to tackle homelessness.

«It's a great shame there has been a reduction in local authority funding to tackle homelessness in Oxford in recent years.»

Tim ran campaigns around food access, school funding reform, ex-offender issues, and youth homelessness.

The event includes a 5k and a Bed Race to race funds to support families transition ing out of homelessness.

Leslie Morphy, chief executive of homelessness charity Crisis, told politics.co.uk she feared small - scale charities would continue to rely on voluntary sources for up to half their funding.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed back against news coverage that said his budget proposal hurts New York City, saying that it would be «absurd» to expect increases in funding to address homelessness and expand infrastructure without an offset elsewhere.

Bonus: The state unlocked $ 2.5 billion in promised funds to boost affordable housing and supportive housing production, both critical to the long - term fight against surging homelessness.

Flawed regulations are leaving asylum seekers destitute and homelessness, according to a new report funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Millionaires don't need new tax cuts, and our state can't afford them when schools and healthcare systems need funding and homelessness is at an all time high.»

Last month, Cuomo launched a $ 20 billion, five - year plan to combat homelessness and advance the construction of affordable housing in New York State — supported by the release of $ 2.5 billion in capital funding delivered in the fiscal year 2018 budget, which he said will establish and preserve more than 110,000 units of affordable and 6,000 units of supportive housing over the next five years.

That bill is likely stalled in the Council, though it has over thirty sponsors, while the new budget includes «$ 1.5 million in new staff and resources to meet the Mayor's goal of ending veteran homelessness, and $ 335,000 to fund a team of Veterans Service Officers that will be deployed in communities throughout the five boroughs,» according to the mayor's office.

The mayor lost on virtually every front last year and the governor is already picking fights with him on new items — like funding for homelessness and the MTA capital plan.

«This is a direct result of decisions made by Conservative ministers: a steep drop in investment for affordable homes, crude cuts to housing benefit, reduced funding for homelessness services and a refusal to help private renters.»

As the budget nears its deadline of April 1, city commissioners have been working their way through Albany to make their case for funding to combat homelessness and improve public housing.

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New York State's FY 2018 Budget continues funding for the state's $ 20 billion comprehensive, five - year plan for affordable and supportive housing to ensure New Yorkers who are homeless or at risk of homelessness have safe and secure housing.

Governor Cuomo is asking the legislature to help free up more funds promised to combat homelessness.

Responding to the report on behalf of the charities, Centrepoint Chief Executive, Seyi Obakin said: «The positive outcomes for the study participants are testament to the targeted support that well - funded homelessness services can provide to tackle homelessness, with long - term benefits to the taxpayer.

«We must finish the job and pass a responsible budget that makes college tuition free for the middle class, fully funds our public schools, cuts taxes for the middle class, Raises the Age of criminal responsibility, combats homelessness, and moves New York forward.

We want to see a move away from silo funding focused solely on targets such as NEETs, homelessness and drug treatment.

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, who chairs the state Assembly's committee on social services, urges New York to embrace a «proven long - term solution to our homelessness crisis by creating and adequately funding 35,000 units of supportive housing over the next 10 years.»

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi slammed Cuomo for criticizing de Blasio's management of NYC's homelessness problem and ripped the governor for dramatically reducing state funding to fight both homelessness and poverty.

In a television interview on Good Day New York earlier Wednesday, de Blasio called on the governor to pony up more funding for the homelessness problem.

Human Services Nonprofit Funding: City - contracted nonprofits provide a range of human services such as homelessness prevention, mental health care, after - school programming, to mention a few.

Two veteran Democrats are challenging Mr. de Blasio in the primary: Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens who has challenged the mayor's approach to homelessness and fought for a Staten Island family trying to keep a large pig as a pet; and Sal Albanese, an Italian - born lawyer and former City Councilman from southwestern Brooklyn who, in his third mayoral run, has argued for a new tax on nonprimary residences — a «pied - à - terre» tax — to help fund affordable housing.

Major issues during the 2015 legislative session included a budget deficit estimated at $ 200 million, social security tax reform, a structural deficit expected to reach $ 400 million by 2019, education funding, and ending homelessness among the state's veterans.

Ulrich said he proposed the legislation out of the need for increased funding for the Mayor's Office of Veterans» Affairs (MOVA), which relied heavily on coordinating with other city agencies to address issues of homelessness, mental health and unemployment in the city's veteran population.

Mark - Viverito met with Gov. Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and briefly with Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan to push for CUNY and health - care funding and for help with homelessness, sources said.

Referencing the report, «Homelessness in Oneida County, NY: Understanding and Addressing a Hidden Social Problem,» written by Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military serHomelessness in Oneida County, NY: Understanding and Addressing a Hidden Social Problem,» written by Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military serhomelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military serhomelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.»

Following the release of funds for the first 6,000 supportive housing units in the completed budget, advocates, supportive housing tenants, and homeless New Yorkers gathered to thank State leaders for this historic investment in a proven solution to homelessness.

Additionally, now that Governor Andrew Cuomo has removed a restriction that prohibited New York City from using state funds earmarked for homelessness for long - term housing, the city has, if not more funding to shift homeless families into supportive and subsidized housing, then at least the legal wherewithal to do so.

«That's why I've decided to join the Independent Democratic Conference, where I can best affect progressive change on issues like affordable housing, higher education, school funding equity, homelessness reforms, economic development, infrastructure upgrades, affordable healthcare, senior citizen protections and so much more,» Peralta said in the statement.

The extra funding comes less than a week after the Conservatives accused the government of underestimating the scale of homelessness in England.

Assemblyman Charles Barron, of Brooklyn, known for his outspoken ways, got up and began yelling during the governor's speech about the state's failure to obey a 10 year old court order to fully fund schools, and increasing homelessness among other grievances.

In advance of Wednesday's budget release, Cuomo's staff released the highlights of an anti-poverty plan that includes increasing the minimum wage from $ 8.75 an hour to $ 10.50 an hour, more funding for an urban youth jobs program and investing millions in housing, homelessness services and emergency food.

There was support for the extra funding promised to fight homelessness and also improve flood defences, although Corbyn was keen to blame both issues on the Conservative government.

Mr. Cuomo says that the city shouldn't be complaining, that the Medicaid and CUNY plans were part of an efficiency drive that in the end «won't cost New York City a penny,» and that it's not as if Mr. de Blasio is a total loser — with the budget anyway, given the state's pledges on affordable housing and homelessness, on funding for universal prekindergarten, community schools and other things.

He has stymied de Blasio at many turns, holding back funding for affordable housing, homelessness prevention, the MTA, and more, while holding hostage issues of rent regulations, the 421 - a tax abatement, and extension of mayoral control of schools.

In a statement, Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Sarah Paden said «Someone should actually show Ms. Nixon New York's housing laws — they were strengthened both times they were up for renewal under this governor, who also secured a record $ 20 billion in state funding to fight homelessness and build affordable housing.»

That's why I've decided to join the Independent Democratic Conference, where I can best affect progressive change on issues like affordable housing, higher education, school funding equity, homelessness reforms, economic development, infrastructure upgrades, affordable healthcare, senior citizen protections and so much more.

Quinn also said that WIN is «very grateful to Governor Cuomo» — her return to public service after her failed bid for mayor was as an advisor to Cuomo and she serves on a state homelessness task force — and she praised him for finally giving his OK to release $ 2 billion in funding for the creation of more than 100,000 affordable and supportive housing units in the state over the next five years.