Sentences with phrase «youth shelter beds»

In April, Governor Andrew Cuomo amended the age for youth shelter beds to 25 on a state level, but Siciliano said the same must be done by the city.

The controversial pop star wants the state to put funding for youth shelter beds in this year's budget.

The de Blasio administration can make a quick down payment on its homeless youth commitment by working to settle a federal lawsuit just filed by the Legal Aid Society aimed at guaranteeing a youth shelter bed for any homeless youth in need.

Not exact matches

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With the May 8 release of his final executive budget proposal for fiscal year 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio is making good on his commitment from last year's campaign to step up city support for homeless youth shelter space by 100 beds each year.

Carl Siciliano, the founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center, lauded the de Blasio administration for adding 100 new emergency beds in youth shelters over the past year, which he sees as a down payment on a commitment to grow the stock of available spots until the unmet need is addressed.

The Campaign for Youth Shelter, a coalition effort by a number of advocacy groups, are pressing the state and city to grow the supply of emergency beds each year by 100 until waiting lists at shelters around the city disappear.

«It's unconscionable that thousands of New York kids each year are turned away from homeless youth shelters because there aren't enough beds.

«It absolutely sickens me,» said Brooklyn Councilman Lew Fidler who chairs the Council's Youth Services Committee, noting that the cuts will slash almost one in six shelter beds for runaway yYouth Services Committee, noting that the cuts will slash almost one in six shelter beds for runaway youthyouth.

A City Hall spokesperson said the de Blasio administration had made «an unprecedented investment to enhance services for runway and youth homelessness,» which included funding 500 additional youth beds in shelter.

In what was a campaign appearance, the speaker also vowed to fund shelter beds for homeless youth currently on waiting listings at the handful of facilities that provide appropriate space.

Chief among those proposals were establishment of a Mayor's Office of HIV / AIDS Policy, funding of shelter beds for homeless youth to eliminate the current waiting list that averages 350 per night at such facilities, and capital spending for senior housing that would serve the needs of LGBT New Yorkers.

During the 2013 mayoral primary campaign, de Blasio and all of his Democratic rivals committed to increasing the stock of available emergency beds by 100 every year until waiting lists at the small number of available youth shelters were eliminated.