Sentences with phrase «than a shelter person»

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Rather than being picked up on - site as cats are at most shelters, they are delivered right to people's homes and have access to various at - home services.

The head of Iranian Red Crescent said more than 70,000 people were in need of emergency shelter.

But a vacancy fee would be a concrete step towards decommodifying housing, by making it clear that the right of people to find affordable shelter is more important than the right of investors to make money by speculating on residential real estate.

The Red Cross said it is mobilizing trained Red Cross disaster relief workers to support the response effort and has more than 17 shelters ready to open and support thousands of people if needed.

For more than four decades, Covenant House has offered a bridge from homelessness to hope, providing shelter, safety, and essential services to more than 1.5 million young people.

More than 11,400 people stayed overnight in 163 government evacuation shelters.

Through the City of Houston Department of Health, Americares donated wheelchairs, walkers as well as medicine to the George R. Brown Convention Center mega shelter, where more than 10,000 people sought refuge.

The video and song start off harmless enough, until the 1:19 mark when Duncan gets into a rap battle with a TSA agent and transforms into a potentially offensive hip - hop stereotype to unleash rhymes like On a mission from God; I like to call Him a Friend / I think that people are sick, and He's the med - o - cine, and this mind - expanding verse: Think I'm just a white man with a sheltered life / Nice home, two cars, two kids and a wife / Just look a little closer while you're starin» at me / «Cause sometimes what you get is more than what you see.

With more rain expected on Monday, the government said more than 100,000 people forced from their homes have taken shelter at 339 relief centres.

Churches and Mosques should be used to shelter poors, feed and educate them rather than making people fanatics.

I know that you may be sheltered from how the rest of the world speaks, but you might as well be dismissing people because they speak with a different accent than you do.

This is also the reason why people in larger cities and areas near the coast have higher intelligence levels than those inland (sheltered from free thought and inquiry).

To food banks, to homeless shelters, to charities that help all people rather than a specific cause, because everyone needs a handout now and then.

A statement from World Vision paid tribute to «the generosity of supporters and partners around the world» which had enabled the charity to «provided food to at least two million people, emergency shelters to more than 40,000 households, and potable water for more than 90,000 people».

I predict more people will be educated, fed, clothed, receive medical treatment, psychological counseling, adoption services, be housed or sheltered, by organizations expressing a religious belief, than by organizations expressing athieistic beliefs

Together, we provide food to more than 37 million people through 61,000 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters in communities across America.

Today, Habitat for Humanity has built more than 500,000 houses, sheltering more than 2 million people worldwide.

Does Mr. Brownback not factor in the fact that most people still need to spend a minimum amount of money to live in modern society (food, shelter, etc.), and it is those people who can not afford to spend more than a minimum that consumption taxes affect the most (which, as you noted, has often been an argument for income tax)?

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said more than 8,000 people had been brought, soaking and desperate, to shelters the city, and defended the decision not to evacuate before Harvey struck over the weekend.

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.

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.

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.

There are currently 52,267 people living in the city's homeless shelters, including more than 22,000 children.

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.

«Is the Senate president unaware of the more than 1,900 Internally Displaced Persons presently taking refuge at the Aba Central Mosque, the more than 800 IDPs now sheltering in the Aba central police station after the gruesome murder of its Divisional Police Officer and his men?

As of last week, there were 59,955 people living in shelter across the city, including more than 23,000 children.

Ordinary residence status is often far more significant than domicile when it comes to detrmining tax status - as domicile status only helps shelter passive income which arises overseas, while not being ordinarily resident allows the person concerned to allocate their income between UK and non UK duties.

He warned the floods will have a «continuing impact for some months to come» and more than 300 people are still in emergency shelters.

«People have been attacked and victimized in some shelters, and some would rather stay outside in the frigid cold than risk entering — and they are right to do it,» Mr. Cuomo said today in his State of the State address.

She acknowledged the challenges that come with the «Not in My Backyard,» or «NIMBY,» worldview — which the mayor said has hurt the city's proposals to bring homeless shelters to different neighborhoods — noting that given the rising population of New York City, the city has to «build more than people in neighborhoods would like.»

The de Blasio administration has dramatically increased funding for services for unsheltered homeless people, increasing funding by 250 percent since 2013 according to DHS figures, which allowed the contracted providers to more than double their outreach staff to 387, and has added 250 new Safe Haven shelter beds, which are designed for unsheltered homeless people, since December 2015.

The city says that more than 50,000 people have exited shelters since de Blasio took office, with close to 19,300 of them finding permanent housing through various city programs.

De Blasio explained that more than two decades of rapid growth in housing costs, combined with slower growth in wages, had contributed to a 115 percent increase in the number of people living in city shelters from 1994 to 2014, when de Blasio took office.

De Blasio has said repeatedly in recent weeks that the city is helping more people than ever before, and 22,000 people have exited the city's shelter system in the past year.

Both Taylor and the city's Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steve Banks testified Wednesday that the city is pumping an «unprecedented» amount of money, time and effort into addressing the city's sizable homeless population, which is now estimated at roughly 58,000 people in shelters, and more than 3,000 people on city streets.

Though the shelter population began to reach historic peaks before de Blasio took office — fueled, in part, by the end of the Advantage rental - subsidy program that stranded people trying to transition, or remain out of, the shelter system — the mayor got hounded (by some, more than others) for his apparent stumbling with the issue.

There are currently more than 58,000 adults and children living in shelters citywide, with 2,656 people living in hotels, 637 of whom are children, de Blasio said.

Rather than new shelters, the Bronx Dem is pushing a plan with Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D - Queens) to create a rent subsidy program to reduce reliance on homeless shelters by making it easier for people to stay in their homes.

The 53 - passenger ferry, running seven days a week until recently, has carried more than 15,000 people since launching at the end of June, but «it's not a moneymaker» yet, Councilwoman Chris Lewis told the Shelter Island Town Board Tuesday while reporting on an East End Transportation Council meeting she attended last week.

The department has seen a marked increase in the number of people turning to shelters after living with family and friends, from 40 percent five years ago to more than 60 percent in recent times, Diamond said.

He likely would have been thrilled by the crowd of more than 100 people, the beautiful weather and mostly by the large flotilla of boats — including the Coast Guard, fire and rescue craft from Greenport, Shelter Island, and Orient, and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Patrol — in the harbor to pay homage to him, hospital president and CEO Paul Connor III said.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

A volcano in eastern El Salvador belched more ash and gases on Monday after a big eruption on Sunday that drove more than 1,600 people into emergency shelters.

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters)- A volcano in eastern El Salvador belched more ash and gases on Monday after a big eruption on Sunday that drove more than 1,600 people into emergency shelters.

The health department trained more than 8,000 people to use naloxone in 2015 — in jails, public housing, bus shelters, street corners and markets.

In short, we believe that Shelter Generations can satisfy only and only those people who, not being able to count on other hardware other than Nintendo Switch, want to recover at all costs Shelter 2 and Paws, two extremely niche videogame experiments.

Bed & Bread provides food and shelter to the impoverished, serving nearly 1.8 million meals and sheltering more than 167,000 persons annually.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

Since March 31, the American Red Cross has helped people affected by tornadoes, floods and wildfires by serving more than 2.2 million meals and snacks, opening more than 230 shelters and providing 20,000 overnight stays, providing more than 48,000 mental health and health consultations, and handing out more than 1.1 million relief items like toothbrushes and shampoo, tarps, coolers, rakes and other cleanup supplies.»

Estimating that it will spend more than $ 41 million responding to disasters which have struck America since March 31, the Red Cross, making a similar plea for assistance in a recent press release, said «The Red Cross is still on the ground in Joplin, Missouri providing meals, safe shelter, relief supplies and emotional support for people affected by the May 22 tornado.