Sentences with phrase «of people living on the street»

When asked about the visible expansion in the number of people living on the street, Mr. de Blasio would tout DHS's success in getting people out of shelters.
«Literally thousands of people living on the streets in tents, in full - time encampments in their downtown area.»
3) I was saddened to see a number of people living on the streets or inside the Metro stations.

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Unless you are one of those rare people who can meet a random stranger on the street, strike up a conversation and get their life story within 30 seconds, approaching someone you have never met before can be nerve - racking.
Near the end of his life, he declared: «If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to happen to the stock market.»
But most of them took one look at the country's most notorious neighbourhood — gorgeous but crumbling buildings, a crack - cocaine epidemic on top of a heroin problem, mentally ill people living on the streets — and shook their heads.
«The people who create the value of production, the workers at Palantir, they need to know that they have liquidity at a fair price and this has raised a lot of questions,» Karp said at the Wall Street Journal «s D Live conference on Wednesday.
You've got life to live, getting set up with Hope Street property management is easy; in person, on - line, or a combination of both.
In total, 4.2 million young people (ages 13 - 25) experience a form of homelessness in a given year, from couch surfing to living on the streets.
Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.
The Bundestag walk - outs attest that the wider opposition to Benedict on display in the press and on the streets was just not to his particular message, but to his person as the living embodiment of his message.
What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?
There are thousands of other stories like this, from people working with those in Vietnam who are dying of HIV / AIDS to people who are simply having Christmas dinner with a friends who live on the street.
At one time he spoke about the vision of Maujer Street» a vision of a life of genuine community between people in the midst of a great city; more recently he has spoken of the Kingdom of God, the hope for a future where God's rule would more fully permeate the lives and institutions of men on this earth.
90 % of the people there are recovered addicts, many of them rescued from a life on the streets.
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?
Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.
William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.
Afterwards, as we were sitting on the couch, a little depressed from all the people who die, the women who get treated like trash, and the overall view in the movie that life is cheap, my wife said, «Of all the traditional Christmas movies, «Miracle on 34th Street,» «White Christmas,» or «A Christmas Story «why do you watch this movie?
Trash pickup also tends to engage more of the people who live on the street in conversations.
What if they were a little smaller and didn't start on time and only had three people in the band, but on nights, weekends and weekdays the congregants scoured the streets of their cities and served people who haven't seen kindness or felt grace in their entire lives?
Just as freedom demands that I should be able to walk down the street and not need to fear somebody walking up to me, pulling a gun on me, and shooting me, so too freedom demands that I should be able to live in community with people of different races, beliefs, etc without having to fear discrimination.
Although there are people in Los Angeles who are struggling tremendously, we don't know intense poverty and pain like the untouchables do in India or the children orphaned and living on the streets of Zambia or Brazil.
Last year the news reports of the Pride Parade where I live showed a float with Christians who say they support LGBTQs, However, it also showed a church in the area where the floats and marchers line up that blocked off its parking lot and access to its property and posted people on the property who said the church objects to parade participants using the public street in front of the church.
We know our hearts and our motives, and how we want to help people learn and live the truth of the Gospel, but for some reason, the average person on the street has a somewhat negative perception of the church.
And just as you get outside you start thinking out loud about how shitty it is that you're passing out second - rate pastries to people who live on the streets because Surely they deserve better than a batch of scones that could easily be passed off as triangular muffins.
We live on a non-through street and we still have people who zoom past the house in the middle of the day, going ten or fifteen miles per hour over the limit.
«It was not all about the big projects only, that we would not overlook neighborhoods like Hamlin Park and the East Side and the West Side and the South Buffalo areas, that we would make sure that recovery, Buffalo's transformation, would also be seen on the street corners and the city blocks and that people's lives could be transformed by having simply a better quality of life,» Hochul said.
When Danish architect and urbanist, Jan Gehl, was invited to undertake a study of the quality of London's public spaces in 2003, his final report, Public Spaces and Public Life — London (2004), noted a particular absence of children and the elderly on the streets of the capital: of all people observed in the case studies, 95 % were between 15 — 64 years of age.
«Being able to support this organization and keep it running has a real financial benefit to the city, not to mention quality of life benefits for the people who live on a street next to a vacant building,» Wright said.
The cost of maintaining e.g., a public road is more or less the same no matter how many people use it, and so if you have lots of people living and paying taxes on a street, each person should not have to pay much to maintain it.
It is however important because of its ramifications.There are many political issues with no apparent relationship to people «s everyday lives which then turn round and bite them.The policy of appeasement in the thirties is one example, another is a failure to develop technical education in Britain comparable to Germany.Neither policy brought people out on the street, each has had a pervasive effect on people «s lives.
We need to be focused on the future we want for the city, having a fresh approach, trying new things that will improve the fundamental aspects of city living: strong schools, safe streets, reliable services connecting people to opportunity.
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.
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.»
For beyond this hall, beyond the gossip pages of the newspapers, and beyond the streets, corridors and meeting rooms of Westminster, life continues — the daily lives of working people go on.
«Well, literally people who are licensed at the facility, there's over 1,000 people who come here and earn either all or part of their living, that's just on the racing side itself, and then you've got all this spill - out effect economically, with farms, feed stores... just across the street from us, huge economic impact, over 80 million (dollars) annually.»
One, VIncent Ignizio of Staten Island, dismissed the notion that people who live in an area have more of a right to park on the streets there than residents of other areas.
«This used to be a business center where people didn't really live,» said Enrico Ciotti, who owns VBar on Front Street and is a member of the Seaport Alliance.
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.
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.
But Philip Schofield, of all people, raised the ire of Downing Street by confronting David Cameron with a list of names while live on national television.
There has been a recent explosion in the number of homeless people living on our streets.
More than a thousand people flooded onto the streets of downtown Syracuse in solidarity with the «March for Our Lives» protests across the country on Saturday.
For one, the HOPE count might not be the most accurate count of the people living on city streets, Taylor said.
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 at night.
As a Bronx - born Puerto Rican, he said, he is also mindful that «there is a crisis of young men in our society... young people whose only existence is life on the streets
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.»
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