Sentences with phrase «many homeless families»

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

I'm doing something positive instead of giving something up, which is a little «old school»... It's my parish's turn to house a group of homeless families for a week through the Interfaith Hospitality Network so my family will cook the evening meal next Tuesday.

The money spent on these billboards could have fed or clothed a homeless family, which by the way would also have gone towards putting Christ back into Christmas.

There are homeless families pushing their belongings around in shopping carts in downtown Wichita, they push them buy the giant mega churchs and sleep on the river banks at night.

The number of homeless families living in emergency bed and breakfast accommodation is at its highest in nearly ten years, according to government figures published in September 2013.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

And, after making considerable progress, they've now turned their attention to the more complicated situation of homeless families with...

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.

Now Partnership is working with the mayor's office and other concerned groups on a more ambitious plan: rehabilitation of more than 1,000 city - owned apartments to provide permanent housing for almost 4,000 homeless families and individuals.

In 2016, when her home state of Tennessee was being torn apart by wildfires, she donated a thousand dollars a month to each homeless family for five months, and then gave them each another $ 5,000.

And they are MY wages, not yours, not the homeless family's, not the lifelong smoker now suffering from lung cancer, not the single mother of five who is struggling to make ends meet.

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.

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.

Today, Vision of Grace Transition Home provides a place for working homeless families to live while they get back on their feet.

We might have had two and a half thousand homeless families on our hands if we had not taken the decision to plough money into absorbing the costs of the government's economically - illiterate bedroom tax.

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 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 council says it stopped using Boundary House to temporarily house some of its homeless families due to the shortage of affordable move - on accommodation in that area, and points out that the government's welfare reforms have led to an increasing number of properties being unavailable to those on housing benefit.

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 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.

«I thank Attorney General Schneiderman, Enterprise, the Robin Hood Foundation and participating landlords for their vision and commitment to help homeless families access affordable housing.»

Christine is uniquely positioned to lead the organization at a time when so many of New York's homeless families need our help.

As Riker's Island became empty of criminals, we could repurpose it as a sanctuary for homeless families or undocumented immigrant children.

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

Such is the pressure to find flats for homeless families in London and Greater London that councils must often compete with each other for the grottiest places.

Yet there are still thousands of homeless families.

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.

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 year, to check the summer increase in homeless families, DHS has stepped up efforts to prevent families from becoming homeless.

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.

De Blasio told Brooklynites at the town hall on Thursday that homeless families should be close to the communities they come from and near their medical care, houses of worship and schools.

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

«If you think you can look a homeless family in the face and say there's no room at the inn for you, you're wrong and we will hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law,» Ms. Quinn said.

The city Department of Homeless Services began moving homeless families into the...

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

«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.»

On the 7 month anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican communities held rallies across the country and pressured elected officials to support the housing needs of displaced or homeless families, many of whom are facing eviction or the expiration of their FEMA hotel vouchers, leaving families and students with nowhere to go.

The mayor also asked lawmakers to urge the state to increase the shelter allowance for homeless families, the amount of aid the state provides for families who receive a subsidy under a program called the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement, or FEPS.

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.

Their ranks include Chris Quinn, who in 2013 rapidly went from consensus favorite to dispiriting third - place defeat, and for the past two years has done admirable work running a nonprofit group that helps homeless families.

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

In a letter to DHS, Quinn states that the agency's «Code Red» and «Code Blue» policy — which is trigged by dangerously hot or cold temperatures and ensures «homeless single adults» shelter at such times — wrongly denies the same protections to homeless families, including those with children.

► 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 units.

[45] In August 1973, he publicly threatened to resign from the Lambeth Housing Committee if the council failed «to honour longstanding promises» to rehouse 76 homeless families then staying in dilapidated and overcrowded halfway accommodation.

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration plans to dedicate 750 apartments a year in public housing to homeless families, officials said Tuesday, a number that council members and advocates say isn't enough to address record levels of homelessness.

De Blasio's administration plans to dedicate 750 apartments a year in public housing to homeless families — a number that Council members and advocates say isn't enough to address record levels of homelessness.