Sentences with phrase «where homeless families»

Aside from operating shelters, BEDCO also runs cluster site housing, where homeless families are placed in apartment units in privately owned buildings.

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-- «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.

«There are times where Major [Cleo] Damon [head of the local office] is counseling families who are about to become homeless because of gambling,» Army spokeswoman Maribeth Shanahan told the Associated Press.

I know situations where people did not know the history of the person they brought into their home (this is not limited to homeless people), and their family suffered the unfortunate results of that decision.

The scheme developed out of networking between the manager of the two Children's Centres, Suzy Turner - Jones, and the local homeless families unit, where residents were complaining of isolation and a lack of support when leaving the unit.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

All of the members live at the Sleep Inn in Queens, where the city has taken over all 10 floors to accommodate about 100 homeless families.

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

The de Blasio administration plans to acquire 25 to 30 privately - owned buildings where the majority of residents are homeless families — even if it has to seize the properties through eminent domain.

A small handful of landlords, including the owner of a Bronx building where two infants were killed last week in a radiator accident, account for an outsized share of dangerous violations in the city's private - apartment program for homeless families.

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

«Homeless families seeking housing where they can afford it and employment where they can find it should have access to those opportunities to get back on their feet,» said City Hall spokesman Isaac McGinn.

Set in a dark, comic book world against the backdrop of late 80s counter culture, DEADLY CLASS follows a homeless teen recruited into a storied elite private school where the world's top crime families send their next generations.

Deadly Class tells the story of a homeless teen recruited into a storied elite private school where the world's top crime families send their next generations.

Identified Students include those whose families participate in other federal programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), where their incomes have already been thoroughly scrutinized, and those who are identified by other programs as extremely vulnerable, such as programs for homeless and migrant children.

I ask because I learned about this school via a story on Public Radio International's The Takeaway, where co-host Celeste Headlee investigated the trying circumstances of America's working poor and homeless families in the run up to the 2012 election.

Their headquarters facility is a pick up location for food for low income families through a local partnership; Tri-Valley works with a homeless shelter in Crookston, MN to transport families to Grand Forks, ND, to an event where resources are provided for them; and they have contracted with several healthcare systems and facilities to provide rides for clients and patients.

At any given time, there are only so many homeless pets that can fit in my home, so I always remind myself that no matter how much I love my fosters and no matter how much fun they are having at my house, there is a more perfect place for them to be, a family where they can be the center of the universe.

Adoptable homeless dogs are not euthanized for lack of space in the communities where we place our animals, so our Louisiana pups never compete with other homeless pets in need of families.

Saving Grace is a non-profit, 501 - C3 organization dedicated to helping homeless animals in our community find permanent, loving homes where they will be treated as family members for the rest of their lives.

Saving Grace is a non-profit, 501 - C3 organization based in North Carolina dedicated to helping homeless animals in our community find permanent, loving homes where they will be treated as family members for the rest of their lives.

Saving Grace is a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) organization in North Carolina dedicated to helping homeless animals in our community find permanent, loving homes where they will be treated as family members for the rest of their lives.

I am a partner in a non-profit dog rescue organization www.longtraildogs.org where we have placed many homeless dogs with lifelong families.

Their dream was to provide a safe haven for the homeless pets of their communities, where the pets could remain with great effort put into their care and happiness until their Forever Family is found.

We are completing the Adoption Wing of the HART Animal Center - this is the place where homeless animals will stay while waiting to meet their permanent families.

ARF is committed to helping homeless pets find loving families and sometimes that means relocating them to an area where the demand for adoptable pets is very high.

And that's why Nuzzles believes in matching once - homeless pets with loving families and creating a world Where Love Wins.

We transport many homeless pets to other shelters in the Midwest and as far away as the New England states where our dogs are quickly adopted by new loving families.

Many homeless pets grew up in homes where they were well - loved family members.

Collie: Almost Home Dog Rescue of Ohio (AHDRO)'s mission is to provide homeless Collies and other family - friendly dogs a safe haven where they will receive medical care, nutrition, and love until an approved home is found; to reduce the number of unwanted pets by altering all dogs in our rehoming program; to educate the public about the importance of altering pets, and to promote the message that owning a pet is a lifelong commitment.

Pawsitive Beginnings Puppy Rehabilitation Program rescues abandoned puppies and homeless mothers with nursing litters from shelters, moments from euthanasia and places them into loving foster homes where they can raise their families and receive the training and medical treatment necessary to give both momma and her puppies a second chance at life.

The Humane Society of Charlotte believes in working to improve our community by creating new, loving families, and building a world where there are no more homeless and unwanted animals.

Help to save lives in our new state - of - the - art hospital where we pride ourselves on offering homeless pets the same top - of - the - line care that animals with the most loving families would have their vets provide.

A world where dogs and cats are no longer homeless, where every dog and cat is cared for by a loving family.

No matter where they are, all homeless pets have one thing in common: they just want a family to call their own.

As a family judge, she had seen cases where women now in their fifties or sixties, who had been left by their partner after 25 to 30 years, were left homeless on their own with the children growing up.

Previously, Ms. Anderson was the deputy commissioner at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF) where she was responsible for federal programs addressing child abuse and neglect, runaway and homeless youth, domestic and intimate partner violence, and teen pregnancy.

i had twin sons; aged 13; in my care at the time; all children were mine biologically.i was a single mother; had no family in new jersey.my sons were on aid for dependent children.i could have notified.teacher was awarded temp.custody; on no legal grounds; august 25th, 1977; of 3 months; and i three months supervised visits; although d.y.f.s. never presented any evidence i was unfit.i still have all papers from 1976 to 2012; when i contacted assignment judge costello (2012); from courts; that i contacted from 1977 to 2000 «pro se; and all civil actions were dismissed without being heard.i was denied due process.the teacher hid my daughter after my visits; for 22 years before i relocated to n.y.c.; and took my sons west near relatives; because the teacher took the s.s.i i had been getting for my daughter (1979); and the aid for dependent children was closed the same year; leaving us homeless; moving from county to county; where welfare was terminated in each county; until we were forced out of new jersey.i found my daughter in 1999; with the help of raymond t. dutcher; agent of n.c.i.c.; n.y.c.; and senator donald t. francesco; and learning disability of new jersey; living apart from the teacher in morristown, n.j. in 1999.