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, housing the homeless?
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I know that most people in my worshiping community have never heard of these folks — they're too busy housing homeless folks, working with the Interfaith Food Shuttle, and practicing the Prayer of Examen in our small groups.
What happens within is another story but it doesn't mean any church deserves to be burned (most are quite beautiful regardless of what they represent)... maybe they should be used for better purposes (housing the homeless for example).
Built in 1967, the Institute Stabile was originally intended to house the homeless.
DO tax all religions on any money they recieve that is not directly used to feed the poor, help the needy and house the homeless.
The multi-faceted mission of Project 7 is: Heal the sick; save the earth; house the homeless; feed the hungry; help those in need; build the future; hope for peace.
The subtitle tells the story: «The Grassroots Movements That Are Feeding the Hungry, Housing the Homeless, and Putting Americans Back to Work.»
If Pope Francis REALLY believes in what he says, he will order the widespread sale of all the priceless historical artifacts in the Vatican and from all the ornate Catholic churches worldwide, (worth untold BILLIONS of dollars) and use the money to feed the poor and house the homeless woldwide.
People who were feeding the hungry, and visiting the prisoner and housing the homeless — doing justice.
Science won't feed or house a homeless person.
We should be so concerned about real problems in the USA like feeding the starving, housing the homeless, etc!!
They add their «Rock» or religion to everything and claim thats what helps the poor and feeds the hungry or houses the homeless, but it's really the other ingredients i.e. the kind hearted people reaching out to help that gives them the facade of helpfulness.
It left 5 houses homeless.
If you knew that there was one thing you could do to save billions of taxpayer dollars that could go to feed the hungry, house the homeless, research cures for other devastating diseases, provide health care to the poor, would you do it?
City taxpayers shelled out a record $ 648,000 to house the homeless in hotels for just one night last year, according to an alarming new report obtained by The Post.
The city plans to spend nearly $ 1.1 billion to house the homeless in commercial hotels over the next three years, officials said Tuesday.
A state agency directed New York City to toughen security at its emergency homeless shelters following the fatal stabbings yesterday of a mother and her young children at a Staten Island hotel used to house the homeless.
The Rent Stabilization Association — which represents 25,000 landlords — blasted the mayor for the campaign, saying he should spend the money to «feed the poor, house the homeless, and provide rent subsidies to those most in need.»
After Decades of New York Mayors trying to house the homeless all we have to show for it is a dramatic increase in the number of homeless.
Over the course of the last year, the city has also increased its reliance on hotels to house the homeless.
The de Blasio administration's take on the program is that a number of landlords have made a lot of money by housing the homeless, as the city pays more than market - rate for these units.
The reason for this is simple — Jay has been a political opportunist since he entered office and isn't viewed as trustworthy or dependable by his fellow legislators,» Mr. Kelly said, referring to Mr. Schneiderman's pet causes: ensuring that countywide sales tax revenue for public safety is distributed evenly to eastern Suffolk, and spreading the burden of housing homeless sex offenders to communities outside his district.
They say it could pay for legal services, help house the homeless and fund better education and end inequities in public schools
The project was made possible under the Suffolk County Housing our Homeless Heroes Act, which authorizes the county to identify qualified housing developers to build handicap accessible single - family homes.
It also runs cluster - site housing, where city contractors lease individual apartments from a landlord to house homeless families.
From the beginning, the mayor's office has insisted the site become a homeless shelter, saying there is a need for more beds and the Bronx isn't doing its part in housing homeless men.
To hear the de Blasio administration tell it, several landlords have gotten rich by housing the homeless, as the city often pays far more than market rate.
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.
The city plans to spend nearly $ 1.1 billion to house homeless people in commercial hotels.
An ordained minister and a deacon at the St. James Methodist Church down the block from the Senate House, Clegg has been involved with feeding the poor and housing the homeless through churches and Family of Woodstock for most of his adult life.
It'll house homeless and low - income veterans.
«The Governor's pathetic offer to provide a tiny fraction of what he promised underscores the shallowness of his commitment to housing our homeless neighbors,» said the Campaign 4 NY / NY.
But shadow housing minister Grant Shapps doubted whether Ms Flint's proposals would be legally enforceable, pointing out ministers and local councils have a statutory duty to house homeless families with children.
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.
A plan by Gov. Cuomo to house the homeless at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens has been shelved.
Other providers wondered how the city would sell the idea to neighborhoods that have shown a reluctance to house the homeless in any form.
The de Blasio administration said Saturday it is open to the idea of converting a near empty psychiatric center to house the homeless.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is making robocalls to New York City landlords asking them to house homeless families from the shelter system.
The city is arranging a deal for 800 private apartments it has used to house homeless families.
Even if Creedmoor is off the table, Cuomo may be considering other state - owned properties to house the homeless.
MIDWOOD — A longtime friend and campaign donor of Mayor Bill de Blasio who ran a nonprofit that amassed more than $ 260 million in city contracts to house the homeless is under investigation over loans and compensation given to him and companies he ran, DNAinfo New York has learned.
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.
Mr. Stringer's duties and powers are a matter of the City Charter, which Mr. Cuomo can not alter, but the governor emphasized that housing the homeless is a responsibility of the state under its constitution.
Faulkner called for a city - residency requirement to be housed in the shelter system to reduce abuse by out - of - towners, and said he'd even house the homeless at City Hall until the issue gets resolved.
The mayor recently said the city wants to stop using costly hotels and private apartments to house the homeless and instead will build 90 shelters over five years.
«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.
The city has increasingly relied on hotels and motels to house the homeless as it moves away from cluster housing.
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.
We've been working very closely on the oil trains issue, on housing homeless veterans, and I look forward to continuing to work with him,» said Sheehan.
Concerns residents raised during the Q&A with the mayor included safety issues in hotels being used to house the homeless and the lack of programs focusing on dyslexia in the borough.