Sentences with phrase «number of homeless people»

At the end of September, former Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Lilliam Barrios - Paoli left the administration after a wave of increasing public pressure on the de Blasio administration to address what many people perceived as an inexorably growing number of homeless people in New York City, both in shelters and on the streets.
More police officers have been sent into the New York City subway to address the large number of homeless people sleeping on trains during cold winter nights, the police said.
The task force, chaired by city Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks, Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Vicki Been and Laura Mascuch, executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, will help the city expedite the creation of the new housing units, de Blasio said, as it faces high numbers of homeless people living in city shelters and on the streets.
A decline in the City's quality of life is her overarching theme, with subway delays, public urination, crippling traffic and increasing numbers of homeless people on the street prime examples she offers of problems caused, or at least not adequately addressed, by Mayor de Blasio.
The actual number of homeless people being placed in hotels during that time period increased by roughly the same amount, 33 percent, to 7,790 from 5,881.
«Despite all the pledges and PowerPoints, we have a record number of homeless people, but no MOU, no long - term funding commitment and the prospect of another year of finger - pointing and self - imposed obstacles.»
De Blasio has recruited a Giuliani - era jails commissioner, Michael Jacobson, to help get the rising number of homeless people off city streets.
The true number of homeless people in the city is between 6,000 and 12,000, not the 3,000 - 4,000 estimated by the city, said Mary Brosnahan, who heads up the Coalition for the Homeless.
It isn't just the growing number of homeless people in San Francisco who publicly relieve themselves.
They are asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to address the growing number of homeless people in the state and free up funding for supportive, affordable housing before the end of the year.
Before setting off on the Walk of Witness and visiting the Salvation Army (below), Zac Goldsmith also acknowledged social inequality in London in regards to the number of homeless people in the capital.
He said he was shocked by the number of homeless people.
A priest has called for a homeless shelter to reopen following an increase in the number of homeless people sleeping in his churchyard during the summer.
For example, the city recently passed a «no camping» ordinance to restrict the number of homeless people who were camping in city parks and vacant lots.
The number of homeless people sleeping on the streets has doubled since the coalition came to power in 2010 and has soared by 30 % in the last year alone, new figures released today reveal.
The move comes just weeks after ex-footballer Gary Neville allowed a number of homeless people, who occupied an empty property he owns, to stay there over the winter.
With the number of homeless people in New York City reaching an all - time high, de Blasio unveiled a five - year plan in February to reduce homelessness and provide better services by opening 90 new shelters and expanding 30 existing ones, but the process of locating them has become contentious.
Over recent years the number of homeless people has soared, camps of rough - sleepers have sprung up around the UK and, according to the charity Shelter, more than 100,000 children will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation.
When this question was reported last November, 8 % thought the number of homeless people in New York City had gone down, 42 % thought the homeless population had grown, and 42 % said it had remained the same.
The number of homeless people in city shelters has exceeded 60,000 for the first time in history, official data revealed Wednesday.
Only 10 % of residents think the number of homeless people, panhandlers, and the mentally ill on the city's streets and subways have decreased.
In one of the richest counties in NY, the number of homeless people, individuals receiving food stamps, children on free or reduced lunch has increased.
The number of homeless people living in shelters in New York City has significantly jumped since Advantage ended, climbing from 42,033 by the end of 2011 to 60,296 in January 2016.
Cuomo, answering questions after his remarks at the church, says the state will have a plan to potentially take over the management of the growing number of homeless people.
MTA officials said they have been unable to significantly reduce the number of homeless people inside Penn Station in recent years, despite temporarily moving more of them out of the LIRR's Manhattan terminal and into shelters.
The number of homeless people in city shelters has exceeded 60,000 for the first time in history, official data revealed.
De Blasio also said his administration's efforts to curb homelessness are working, despite increasing estimates of the number of homeless people on city streets, and expressed frustration that New Yorkers often confuse panhandlers «who are not particularly in need» for homeless persons.
After more than a year of resisting questions about when, if ever, the shelter census will start to decline, the new plan also sets an exceedingly modest target for reducing the number of homeless people living in shelter.
The city has seen an explosion in homelessness over the last three years, with the number of homeless people in the shelter system crossing 60,000 late last year.
Malliotakis also criticized the mayor for the growing number of homeless people, crime and the sharp growth of the City budget.
Immigrants are not to blame for the number of homeless people sleeping on the streets of our towns and cities.
Many of the programs intended to help these are either insufficient or poorly executed, and the entire system is strained as the number of homeless people in the city has soared.
There has been a recent explosion in the number of homeless people living on our streets.
Looking at one of the largest issues facing the de Blasio administration, a plurality of residents, 46 %, think the number of homeless people, panhandlers, or mentally ill on the city streets is about the same as it has been.
But the Rt Rev John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, told peers he was not persuaded that the number of homeless people would not be negatively affected.
The number of homeless people in West Yorkshire is rising steadily and churches and many others in the county are increasingly involved in providing night shelter accommodation for the homeless,» he said in the Lords.
Trillium Health is one of the organizations involved, and its housing specialist, Javier Elias, says there are a number of homeless people in the region who have slipped through cracks in the system for various reasons.
The number of homeless people in central New York is down, according to a report on the state of Homelessness in 2015 for Syracuse and Onondaga County.
The protest, which at times grew tense and disorganized with residents shouting over elected officials, comes on the same week the city announced the number of homeless people has grown to 60,000 people, an increase of nearly 10,000 since de Blasio took office and the highest it has been since the city began keeping count.
Despite that promise, the number of homeless people living in hotels has grown over the past year.
December 6, 2017 • It's the first time the number of homeless people has grown since 2010.
For instance, instead of simply saying that you worked for a soup kitchen, state the number of homeless people you served and how you made process more efficient.
HUD recently announced its 2013 estimate of the number of homeless persons in America.
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