Sentences with phrase «years as a homeless»

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?

As a boy, Hobson was bounced around 32 different foster homes and later spent several years as a homeless teenager; now he preaches the virtues of traditional family values.

Not exact matches

Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

The vote highlighted the state's housing and homeless problem as a election - year issue that promises to dominate the state's politics for years.

In his new memoir Porcelain, the 51 - year - old recounts his humble beginnings as a homeless vegan desperate to «make it» as a DJ in New York City between 1989 and 1999.

I grew up in a city and I had never seen a homeless or hobo as I have the past 15 years.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

we drove our sultry, un-air-conditioned, ten - year - old Buick west, searching out the homeless and talking with shelter providers who act as their advocates.

We had grown close taking food to the homeless in the woods and stayed close as the years went by.

It all stems from yesterdays Washington Post article highlighting how he and his lovely wife Julie have taken in homeless dogs for the last several years, acting as a foster family until the lovable pooches can find forever homes.

She has been working as a group leader for over three years, co-leading toddler groups and facilitating parenting groups in homeless shelters as part of ECPC's outreach program.

As homelessness has increased in recent years, so too has the number of homeless camps around the country.

New York City wants elected and community officials to speak up about potential locations for new homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywide.

As significant welfare reform and housing bills make their way through parliament this legislative year, debates on cutting housing benefit for 18 - 21 year olds, and the security and affordability of the private rented sector will all come to play — with potentially dire consequences for people at the cusp of becoming homeless.

Recent government figures show that 13,850 households were accepted as homeless between April and June of this year - a rise of 5 % across England and 10 % in London compared to the same time last year.

As the buyer is liable to repay the discount if a property is resold within three years, some former tenants have found themselves homeless.

At 9:30 a.m., the de Blasio Administration and elected officials will announce that the Department of Homeless Services has ended the use of more than 42 percent of cluster units citywide as part of the its commitment to phasing out the 18 - year - old stop - gap cluster site program, 1146 Ogden Ave., the Bronx.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making the rounds at the Democratic National Convention, speaking to LGBT and pro- Israel gatherings, as well as a homeless prevention group known as HELP that Cuomo founded 30 years ago.

An autumn snapshot survey last year recorded 4,134 rough sleepers, while the number of homeless families approaching councils and being assessed as entitled to temporary accommodation rose by 48 per cent to 59,090.

QUEENS, NY — With the beginning of the school year fast approaching, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is encouraging members of the public to once again donate backpacks and other school supplies to homeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by the Coalition for the Hhomeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by the Coalition for the HomelessHomeless.

He said as many as 150 new units are currently being discussed, but that he understands why the New York City advocates, where the homeless problem is on a much larger scale, might be more concerned with the lack of a full five - year agreement.

QUEENS, NY — As part of her commitment to getting the school year off to a good start for all children, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is encouraging members of the public to once again donate backpacks and other school supplies to homeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by -LSB-..As part of her commitment to getting the school year off to a good start for all children, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is encouraging members of the public to once again donate backpacks and other school supplies to homeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by -LSB-..as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by -LSB-...]

On the way down the hill to the Hooley on Sunday I passed «Patriot House» on Wurts Street, designed three years ago as a county shelter for homeless veterans.

Bill de Blasio's homeless commissioner, Gilbert Taylor, told the City Council this afternoon that he plans to travel to Albany tomorrow to lobby for permission to use state funds for rental subsidies, even as the Cuomo administration suggested it's too late for significant changes this year.

A 33 - year old homeless man identified as Daniel Reuter and Jacob Heimroth, also 33, of Troy, were arrested Monday for the August 20th beating deaths of Allen and Maria Lockrow, found beaten to death in their home.

A firm that manages dozens of city homeless shelters — including the Bronx site where two toddlers were killed by a radiator steam leak in December — has kept years of tax problems hidden from the city even as it continued to collect millions in taxpayer dollars.

Evictions in New York City dropped last year to their lowest level in a decade, as the de Blasio administration bolstered efforts to prevent more New Yorkers from becoming homeless.

As he moves to open 90 new homeless shelters in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is opening himself up to a new level of political risk as he runs for re-election this yeaAs he moves to open 90 new homeless shelters in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is opening himself up to a new level of political risk as he runs for re-election this yeaas he runs for re-election this year.

Nonprofit providers who operate shelters and provide homeless prevention and aftercare services, who have been agitating for across - the - board contract increases from the de Blasio administration as part of this year's budget, said they were concerned about how the city planned to fund what amounts to a broadening of their work.

There was a slight decrease of school - age children who were homeless during the 2014 - 2015 school year as compared to the year prior (down to 678 from 712 during the 2013 - 14 school year), the audit shows.

Comptroller Finds Problems with Homeless Shelters as Advocates Say 1 Year of Funding is Not Enough

Bill de Blasio's mayoral transition drew to a close on New Year's Eve, with a final press conference to announce five appointments: Gilbert Taylor as Commissioner of Homeless Services, Polly Trottenberg as Transportation Commissioner, Bob Linn as Director of Labor Relations, Stanley Brezenoff as a Special Advisor to the First Deputy Mayor and Kyle Kimball as President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

«It's going to be person by person, because literally each homeless person has their own challenge,» he added, touting the city's commitment to create 15,000 units of supportive housing over the next 15 years, as well as new behavioral health services for the city's homeless and mentally ill population.

For the past twenty - five years she has served as national director of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, helping to lead marches, tent cities, homeless encampments, sit - ins and Read more»

The city will begin conducting an official count of street homeless individuals once every quarter, instead of once a year, as is the current practice.

As he worked his way from a homeless shelter into the Ivy League at Cornell University and then became Ithaca's youngest mayor four years ago, Myrick encountered countless people who never got the help they needed.

«As a result of the recent 90 - day review of homeless services and the reforms that were announced this month, we have further increased the funding to address shelter conditions that have built up over many years,» said Lauren Gray, senior advisor for communications for the Department of Homeless Shomeless services and the reforms that were announced this month, we have further increased the funding to address shelter conditions that have built up over many years,» said Lauren Gray, senior advisor for communications for the Department of Homeless SHomeless Services.

«The good news is that in the coming year we're very hopeful that we actually start to see the number of homeless families and kids begin to go down as a result of the reforms the de Blasio administration has put in place.»

Cuomo's leadership here goes all the way back to his years as head of the city Commission on the Homeless — whose February 1992 report, «The Way Home,» warned that simply giving housing to the homeless guarantees a surge in folks claiming to be hHomeless — whose February 1992 report, «The Way Home,» warned that simply giving housing to the homeless guarantees a surge in folks claiming to be hhomeless guarantees a surge in folks claiming to be homelesshomeless.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

UPPER WEST SIDE — City Comptroller John Liu has rejected a five year contract for two controversial homeless shelters installed last summer on West 95th Street, to the relief of critics who have railed against them since their «emergency» opening and the consternation of city officials who blasted it as political grandstanding.

The Department of Homeless Services has estimated that it can save about $ 4 million a year if it diverts about 10 percent of shelter applicants to other locations, such as the homes of family and friends.

For the 20 years that I have been working with homeless youth in NYC, it has always been accepted as a given by city government that many homeless youth must sleep on the streets because of an inadequate youth shelter supply to meet the need.

He then spent a year as a legal advocate for the homeless in New York City, cementing his conviction to make a difference in the world — somehow.

She said that while previous studies have looked at the 10 - year risk of cardiovascular disease among the homeless population, she felt that was not a long enough period of time to take into account the impact of changed behavior, such as stopping smoking.

For years, the industry has rounded up itinerant workers known as «nuclear gypsies» from the Sanya neighborhood of Tokyo and Kamagasaki in Osaka, areas known for large numbers of homeless men.

Express your kindness this year in the form of helping others by doing deeds such as serving food to the homeless or signing up to walk shelter dogs.

Last year, fellow Brit Ed Sheeran made... Ellie Goulding was in the festive giving mood on Monday night, as she hosted her annual star - studded benefit concert for homeless charity Streets of London

He said it had taken him six years to make «Delirious,» a (mostly) comedy about a low - end paparazzo (Steve Buscemi) who takes on a homeless kid (Michael Pitt) as his assistant.

Other British films screening at the festival include Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of Alan Bennett's hit play The Lady in the Van, with Maggie Smith reprising her much - lauded performance as eccentric homeless woman who lived in Bennett's drive for 15 years.