Sentences with phrase «of homeless people living»

Despite that promise, the number of homeless people living in hotels has grown over the past year.

There has been a recent explosion in the number of homeless people living on our streets.

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.

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 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.

In development over at Last Pick Productions, iBeg is a mobile game for the iOS and Android platforms that simulates the life of a homeless person living on the streets of Vancouver.

I remember the entrance to a hike in Calistoga even where a group of homeless people lived at the trail head.

Not exact matches

«In my community of Surrey, people who live in manufactured home parks are worried that they'll be evicted, have nowhere to go, and become homeless if the owner decides to redevelop the site,» said Bains.

What do many of the most successful (and richest) hedge fund managers have in common with a life - long homeless person?

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

But all religions are elitist to a point - they all think they are right and the best - but you can not go out and preach the word of Christ by alienating those you wish to hear the word... it's like someone from a country club going to a homeless person and throwing out all the benefits of the country club and the amazing life of the people who are members... Not exactly welcoming and understanding.

So if I were a rich man and left all of my possessions behind and lived on the street for a year as a homeless person, is the hypocrisy that I could go back to being rich or that I tried to see how someone else lives?

If you live in a larger town or city, you may want to contact some of your local homeless service agencies and ask if the people you see on the corners are really homeless or are professional panhandlers.

A controversial life - size statue of Jesus depicted as a homeless person has become a permanent fixture near a church in Scotland.

If it is possible for the Irish People to adjudicate by ballot on this question, why might we not in the future deliberate similarly on the right to life of the elderly, the homeless, the Travellers, or the mentally ill?

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

The homeless people they meet and the response of those people to a simple gift and a little love and kindness given in the name of Jesus makes an impression unparalleled by any sermon or what - have - you that they have yet encountered in life.

Almsgiving is a duty of charity, a commendable spiritual practice along with prayer and fasting, and a means for us to win friends in eternity, whether by giving money to organisations or individuals who carry out the corporal works of mercy — saving the lives of pre-born babies by supporting pro-life work, feeding the hungry by the alleviation of famine, sheltering the homeless, welcoming the stranger, or the spiritual works of mercy, such as having Masses offered for people who are sick or in particular need, or those who have died and the souls in purgatory.

Last Saturday our small group ventured to downtown San Diego to an area where several hundred homeless people live on the sidewalk, in the shadow of the ballpark.

About 300 homeless people are living in the tunnels and drain system underneath Las Vegas, surviving off of the excess and garbage created by those above ground.

A controversial life - size statue of Jesus depicted as a homeless person has become a permanent fixture... More

Under that model, the life of a popular member of a congregation is worth more than the life of a homeless person in His eyes.

I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.

Its hungry and homeless wanderers often are mentally ill people who have been prematurely released from state - run mental institutions — not dangerous enough to be locked away, but not well enough to live without the emotional and physical support which few people seem capable of offering them.

I lived in the heart of downtown Atlanta for several years and knew many homeless people.

I should also make it clear that I don't befriend all homeless people, just the ones I pass on a regular basis because I feel like it's my duty as a human to extend any act of kindness I can — whether it's a big ass grin or a cup of coffee or an hour long conversation on aforementioned bench in the dead of winter — to the people who appear in my life more days than not.

What's left outside the ecstasy of celebration is people breaking bottles, throwing up, and being aggressive to the homeless people in a city that a lot of them don't live in.

January was a great month for 100 homeless people in Boston who are now living in permanent supportive housing thanks to the generosity of The Pine Street Inn.

A Brooklyn bodega owner opens his basement to the homeless so they can have a place to sleep at night, even though the shop is zoned for commercial use, and the basement does not have the required certificate of occupancy to permit people to live there.

The initiative intends to develop a greater understanding of homeless people who have to cope with multiple problems in their lives, such as drug or alcohol dependencies, severe mental health problems and institutional experiences, such as prison or long term hospital stays.

To date, the agency has developed 15 affordable housing programs across the country — with more than 950 units — which are home to underserved populations including veterans, survivors of domestic violence, people living with HIV, and the formerly homeless.

The Guardian has highlighted the cases of numerous other people who have lost their jobs or been made homeless because they are unable to prove they are in the UK legally, despite having lived in the country for over half a century.

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.

«Most of these people are homeless simply because they couldn't afford to live anywhere, a situation made worse by welfare cuts.»

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.

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.

He recently announced plans to overhaul the Department of Homeless Services and increase the city's outreach to people living on the street.

Advocates for homeless people filed a complaint with New York City's Civil Rights Commission accusing the Police Department of targeting people living on the street, a practice they say violates a two - year - old law that prohibits «bias - based profiling.»

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.

De Blasio has battled the perception that quality of life has deteriorated under him as tabloids have focused on shootings and regularly printed pictures of homeless people.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), and Southern Tier Environments for Living (STEL) joined local partners to dedicate Evergreen Lofts, an under - utilized industrial building in Buffalo that now has 56 energy - efficient affordable apartments in an LGBTQ - friendly setting and supportive housing for formerly homeless persons with chronic medical conditions.

Several houses of worship will provide sanctuary — and temporary sleeping space — to the homeless under a de Blasio administration initiative aimed at helping to reduce the number of people living on New York City streets.

«The expansion of this scheme - which is proving a major success - will transform the life chances of thousands of homeless people.»

He told people that there were no homeless people living in the streets of New York, and most recently, he felt that more blacks and Latinos needed to be stopped and frisked as opposed to whites,» Liu said.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 80» and 90's, Westchester County purposely move people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

In a City Council Hearing last week, Taylor could not give an accurate number for the amount of people living on city streets, or for the number of admissions to city homeless shelters since de Blasio took office.

At an oversight hearing Wednesday on how Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is handling the city's homeless population, City Councilman Steve Levin asked Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Gil Taylor exactly how many people are currently living on New York City's streets, without a place to sleep ahomeless population, City Councilman Steve Levin asked Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Gil Taylor exactly how many people are currently living on New York City's streets, without a place to sleep aHomeless Services Commissioner Gil Taylor exactly how many people are currently living on New York City's streets, without a place to sleep at night.

The cards are aimed largely at helping the estimated 500,000 immigrants living illegally in the city, and champions of the cards said they will also be of help to the elderly, the homeless and transgender people.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 1980» and 90's, Westchester County purposely moved people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

In his national - tilted themes, Cuomo talked of an American economic transformation that has made a «handful rich,» of record homeless people living on the streets and a judicial system too often tipped «by resources or race.»