Sentences with phrase «of city homeless shelters»

Mr. Cuomo, the mayor said, had acted vindictively toward the city, citing cuts in state financing for public housing and what he called an abrupt ramp - up of state inspections of city homeless shelters «with a vigor we had never seen before.»

The mayor said Cuomo has gone after him many times — including when the state suddenly stepped up inspections and sought to cut off funding of city homeless shelters in May.

A firm that manages dozens of city homeless shelters — including the Bronx site where two toddlers were killed by a radiator steam leak in December — has kept years of tax problems hidden from the city even as it continued to collect millions in taxpayer dollars.

But the upstagings and rank - pullings kept coming — from Cuomo's blindsiding of de Blasio with an Ebola quarantine to a last - minute request for $ 1 billion more in city transit funding to sudden inspections of city homeless shelters — and the rewards kept diminishing.

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I have volunteered in homeless shelters in two major cities and the ones that rely on private donations exclusively do a MUCH better job of helping the homeless and the poor than the government run shelters.

Researchers at Baylor University have released the findings of a new study that looked at the number of «emergency shelter beds» for the homeless across 11 major U.S. cities, and...

The de Blasio administration is accusing the Cuomo administration of recklessly leaking a false report of the gang rape in a homeless shelter to a tabloid, in what a NYC commissioner described as a «political media hit» designed to make the city look bad.

New York City wants elected and community officials to speak up about potential locations for new homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywide.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Stepping up the effort to press the Cuomo administration to provide more funding to shelter homeless youth, State Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay Manhattan Democrat, appeared with fellow elected officials and advocates outside of City Hall on February 12 to make the case.

After watching and reading accounts of protests and town hall meetings against new homeless shelters in East Elmhurst and Elmhurst, City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) kept quiet because the controversy lay outside his district.

Come Home NYC will coordinate with the city's Department of Homeless Services to identify shelter families earning an average of $ 35,000 a year or more, help locate an affordable apartment for them and use the funds from the attorney general's office and $ 300,000 from the Robin Hood Foundation provide the landlord with a $ 3,000 deposit to off - set potential rent shortfalls.

Cuomo is pursuing a resolution to an impasse with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in the city's attempt to secure access to state funds to launch a new program to help the homeless move out of sheltCity Mayor Bill de Blasio in the city's attempt to secure access to state funds to launch a new program to help the homeless move out of sheltcity's attempt to secure access to state funds to launch a new program to help the homeless move out of shelters.

With New York City's homeless population in shelters at a record high of 50,000, a growing number of people living there are actually working — sometimes more than one job — but still can't afford a place of their own.

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.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With the May 8 release of his final executive budget proposal for fiscal year 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio is making good on his commitment from last year's campaign to step up city support for homeless youth shelter space by 100 beds each year.

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

The number of homeless people in city shelters has exceeded 60,000 for the first time in history, official data revealed Wednesday.

Council speaker Christine Quinn, usually a staunch Bloomberg ally, is furious at the administration's court attempt to knock down a city law limiting the size of homeless shelters to 200 beds.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pushing for policies to move the homeless out of city shelters more quickly.

HAPPY BELATED MOTHER»S DAY — NBC News 4: «City council members are introducing a series of Mother's Day - inspired bills that would require lactation rooms in most workplaces and provide diapers in homeless shelters and subsidized daycares.

Malliotakis also touched on familiar criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, saying that he «ties the hands of law enforcement» and ignores the will of City residents in areas such as his plan to build 90 shelters for the homeless and his newly adopted goal of replacing Rikers Island with jails throughout the City.

Still, «the most pressing issue in our city of this generation is affordable housing,» James said; she stated that in her second term, she would work to address that problem, whether through making «preferential rent» permanent (rather than something a landlord can change or remove at whim), or creating more housing, rather than shelters, for homeless New Yorkers.

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.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Other proposals by the Albanese campaign include new Mitchell Lama development in place of the mayor's proposal to build 90 new homeless shelters, a tax on real estate purchased by foreign individuals and corporations as investments rather than residences, and consolidating «programs like Head Start and pre-K under a single city agency.»

Mayor Michael Bloomberg was recently quoted as saying that the sharp rise in the length of stays at city homeless shelters has to do with «more pleasurable» shelter conditions.

At the turn of the year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order mandating cities statewide to give homeless people shelter when temperatures hit 32 degrees.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene must release all «information regarding individuals with elevated blood - lead levels in NYCHA public housing» as well as «unsafe, unsanitary or unhealthful conditions» in homeless shelters and public housing.

DNAinfo also reported last month that the city's Department of Homeless Services ignored repeated warnings about the nonprofit over the past few years — long before 1 - year - old Scylee Vayoh Ambrose and 2 - year - old Ibanez Ambrose were killed in one of its shelter apartments in The Bronx.

«This Executive Order adds no legal or financial resources to New York City's programs to assist the homeless, and merely requires all New York State localities follow many of the same requirements as New York City to shelter families and individuals in need in freezing temperatures.»

There were 866 homeless men, women and children in the shelter system whose last known address was on the North Shore, followed by 109 in Mid-Island and 66 on the South Shore, according to city numbers as of Feb. 28.

Johnson told the crowd that despite progress, the city faces an affordability crisis, with more than 60,000 people living in the homeless shelter system, racial disparities in «nearly every aspect of life» and «fiscal realities» presented by Washington and Albany.

Around the same time, the Wall Street Journal posted an article about the state withholding funds for 14 homeless shelters facing persistent code violations, an escalation of a feud between City Hall and the executive chamber that made advocates howl.

And the U.S. Attorney's office also is seeking all communications between the health department, NYCHA, the Department of Homeless Services and any city, state or federal governmental agency about conditions in public housing or homeless sHomeless Services and any city, state or federal governmental agency about conditions in public housing or homeless shomeless shelters.

The city is way behind on the number of homeless shelters that Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to open.

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

Former Council Speaker Christine Quinn, now head of supportive housing nonprofit Women in Need, was on hand to announce the results of the de Blasio administration's review of the city's homeless shelters — and to shower her longtime rival's team with praise.

► The city will help move 500 homeless families out of shelters into stable, affordable housing through the Living in Communities voucher program.

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.

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.

More recently, the city's homeless shelters have also come under fire for their state of disrepair.

In November of 2015, Bharara's office asked NYCHA and the Department of Homeless Services to produce a wealth of information about possible lead poisoning and unsafe conditions in NYCHA housing and city shelters, including any records of addresses where residents with elevated blood - lead levels have been identified, along with the date that the identification was made.

During former mayor Michael Bloomberg's tenure, the state cut what was known as the Advantage Program, which allowed the city to spend its Department of Homeless Services budget on rental assistance for families leaving shelters, as long as they were employed or actively seeking jobs.

New York City is investigating allegations that Covenant House, the largest local provider of shelter to homeless teenagers and young adults, has been inflating the number of people it serves and has not been complying with the terms of its contracts with the cCity is investigating allegations that Covenant House, the largest local provider of shelter to homeless teenagers and young adults, has been inflating the number of people it serves and has not been complying with the terms of its contracts with the citycity.

Cuomo took another swipe at NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's handling of the homeless, charging that people live in the streets because they're afraid of the city's «dangerous» shelters.

At noon, Sen. Leroy Comrie joins the NAACP, National Action Network and others to call on the administration to stop the placement of homeless shelters in southeast Queens, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

One of the homeless shelters run by Housing Enterprise for Less Privileged (HELP), founded by Cuomo in 1986, racked up 31 critical incidents last year — the most of any of the so - called Tier 2 family shelters in the city, according to a review of internal records by the Daily News.

The state may assume more responsibility and oversight of homeless shelters in New York amid growing concerns over the issue particularly in New York City.

The disheartening number of violent incidents that take place in the city's homeless shelters were revealed for the first time in a report released by NY1.