Sentences with phrase «to house the homeless»

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

The cost of housing the homeless in hotels checked in at an estimated $ 50 million in the past year.

At the same time, all of the work of housing homeless individuals that was happening before the storm continues today.

There are thousands of animal shelters and rescues in existence that serve the purpose of temporarily housing homeless animals until they can be placed with new owners.

The city plans to spend nearly $ 1.1 billion to house homeless people in commercial hotels.

This newly launched opportunity provides the training and supplies needed for animal lovers to temporarily house homeless pets and facilitate their adoption from outside of the shelter.

There are scores of organizations devoted to housing homeless cats.

So, I did a little research and spoke a bit about tiny house homeless communities.

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

Other providers wondered how the city would sell the idea to neighborhoods that have shown a reluctance to house the homeless in any form.

In addition to housing homeless animals, many perform spay / neuter procedures, teach humane education in local schools, and provide training classes for new puppy parents, among many other activities.

Where a council had accepted a duty to house a homeless person / family, that individual / family was far more likely to secure suitable accommodation in the social sector.

Project Unleashed started as a small, every other month outreach program, to provide veterinary care to the animals who reside with their owners at Camillus House homeless shelter.

The time has finally come where we will be updating our out - of - date kennels, which house our homeless dogs until they move on to their forever homes.

Faulkner called for a city - residency requirement to be housed in the shelter system to reduce abuse by out - of - towners, and said he'd even house the homeless at City Hall until the issue gets resolved.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson lashed out at de Blasio administration budget officials on Monday for refusing to provide a price tag for housing the homeless in commercial hotels and...

Mr. Schneiderman said he would almost certainly make an endorsement in the race for county executive, and that two issues would inform that decision: revenue sharing (or preventing county sales tax revenue from going exclusively to western Suffolk Police Departments and not those on the East End) and the presence in his district of so - called «sex offender trailers» (which house homeless people convicted of sex crimes).

We are hosted in Camillus House Homeless shelter, which allows Project Unleashed a large office space with a separate waiting room and 3 exam cubicles.

We've been working very closely on the oil trains issue, on housing homeless veterans, and I look forward to continuing to work with him,» said Sheehan.

The de Blasio administration's take on the program is that a number of landlords have made a lot of money by housing the homeless, as the city pays more than market - rate for these units.

The reason for this is simple — Jay has been a political opportunist since he entered office and isn't viewed as trustworthy or dependable by his fellow legislators,» Mr. Kelly said, referring to Mr. Schneiderman's pet causes: ensuring that countywide sales tax revenue for public safety is distributed evenly to eastern Suffolk, and spreading the burden of housing homeless sex offenders to communities outside his district.

Over the years, those dollars have helped house homeless pets, feed the hungry, teach children and protect Jackson's natural beauty.

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

In 2010, the Olympic tent city led by Indigenous women and elders of DEWC / POW won the immediate demand of housing all homeless residents living on the site.

Local elected officials should have the courage to take on this problem with the mayor, rather than rally against housing homeless children in their communities.»

The phaseouts would represent a sea change in how the city houses its homeless population — the 17,500 people currently living in hotels or clusters represent 30 percent of all people in DHS shelters.

How This Once Homeless Refugee Built a Booming $ 12 Million Logistics Business — and Bought His Mom a House

Seasoned members of AA will usually know such things as the practices of local hospitals, where to house homeless alcoholics satisfactorily, and which physicians or psychotherapists are effective in treating alcoholics.

If Pope Francis REALLY believes in what he says, he will order the widespread sale of all the priceless historical artifacts in the Vatican and from all the ornate Catholic churches worldwide, (worth untold BILLIONS of dollars) and use the money to feed the poor and house the homeless woldwide.

«Under the guise of this austerity and responsibility, they're (representatives who support the budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan) only thinking of us after all they gut the very programs that help Catholic sisters house the homeless, feed the hungry, give children a chance,» Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, told the crowd.

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.

The mayor's decision to return the money came after DNAinfo New York exclusively reported that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the city Department of Investigation have opened probes into Yitzchok Leshinsky and his nonprofit Housing Bridge, which has secured more than $ 260 million in contracts to house the homeless since it started in 2006.

The project was made possible under the Suffolk County Housing our Homeless Heroes Act, which authorizes the county to identify qualified housing developers to build handicap accessible single - family homes.

From the beginning, the mayor's office has insisted the site become a homeless shelter, saying there is a need for more beds and the Bronx isn't doing its part in housing homeless men.

An ordained minister and a deacon at the St. James Methodist Church down the block from the Senate House, Clegg has been involved with feeding the poor and housing the homeless through churches and Family of Woodstock for most of his adult life.

«The Governor's pathetic offer to provide a tiny fraction of what he promised underscores the shallowness of his commitment to housing our homeless neighbors,» said the Campaign 4 NY / NY.

NYC's use of Manhattan hotels to house the homeless shot up 58 percent in the last year as bookings expanded from the outer boroughs to prime tourist destinations in Midtown and Soho.

The city's increasing, and increasingly costly, reliance on hotels to house the homeless over the past several years is partly the result of an early decision by the mayor that slowed the building of new shelters.

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.

One issue that several members returned to, however, was the city's spending on housing homeless New Yorkers in cluster sites and emergency hotel shelters.

The city has increasingly relied on hotels and motels to house the homeless as it moves away from cluster housing.

The Sheepshead Bay facility on Emmons Avenue is a hotel already housing the homeless that would be converted into a shelter with social services.

The city is considering doubling the capacity of the Pamoja House homeless shelter, at 357 Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford - Stuyvesant, making room for 400...

At that time, the clinic was still operating in the back of the St. Francis House homeless shelter.

Peaceful Animal Adoption Shelter (PAAS) Will house homeless dogs and cats in the Craig county and S.

This legislation is vital when you consider that the key to saving lives is not just housing homeless animals, but more importantly, re-homing them.

Mr. Kiefer directed a small army of art handlers whirring about on hydraulic lifts, racing to install an array of 25,000 - pound detritus - filled sculptures, 10 - feet - high neo-runic paintings, and charcoal wall inscriptions, just hours before a dinner benefiting the Lotus House homeless shelter.