Sentences with phrase «to house homeless families»

HOMELESSNESS — Daily News's James Fanelli: «A Brooklyn nonprofit run by double - dipping twins has raked in millions of dollars housing homeless families in a dilapidated hotel where residents languish for years — and nature's ring - tailed bandits run wild, whistleblowers say.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is making robocalls to New York City landlords asking them to house homeless families from the shelter system.

But shadow housing minister Grant Shapps doubted whether Ms Flint's proposals would be legally enforceable, pointing out ministers and local councils have a statutory duty to house homeless families with children.

Ms. Rosen suggested that one possibility might be to convert the many transitional shelters currently housing homeless families to permanent facilities, though there may be substantial resistance on the part of building owners, who are accustomed to charging the city upwards of $ 3,000 a month per room for shelter units and would likely have to settle for much less if they were converted to more stable housing.

Nevertheless, the big hotel lobby has fought this common - sense solution at every turn, denying the state millions in an effort to protect their billion - dollar businesses from competition, even as they accept millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies and hundreds of millions more to house homeless families at exorbitant rates.

On Wednesday afternoon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer called for an «immediate and thorough review of the safety and conditions of every commercial hotel being used to house homeless families throughout all five boroughs,» in order to provide a «complete accounting» of what the city plans to do to ensure the shelters are protected.

His administration has also housed homeless families in motels and hotels, spending an estimated $ 50 million in the last year.

TRAVIS — A controversial program to house homeless families in Staten Island hotels has ended after the last residents were moved out last week, officials said.

Last month, the city began making robocalls to landlords, asking them to house homeless families from the shelter system.

Homeless spending has surged in part because the city is using expensive commercial hotels to house homeless families, according to the Independent Budget Office.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is looking to reduce the amount of money the city pays for apartments in the city's so - called cluster site program, which uses privately - owned apartment buildings to house homeless families.

It also runs cluster - site housing, where city contractors lease individual apartments from a landlord to house homeless families.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has long criticized New York City's use of privately owned apartment buildings to house homeless families, and his administration has, in its first six months, taken steps to reduce the amount that the city pays for these units.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has long criticized the use of privately owned apartment buildings to house homeless families, and his administration has taken steps to reduce the amount the city pays for these units.

The city is arranging a deal for 800 private apartments it has used to house homeless families.

Last fall, HPD quietly introduced a new rule allowing the city to house homeless families in rent - stabilized affordable housing units created in new developments built with the 421a tax exemption, provoking the ire of some New York developers.

«The city has grappled for years with the need to house homeless families and has dealt with it by rewarding unscrupulous landlords offering rooms for hire in SROs with unconscionable, sky - high payments,» she said.