A major obstacle to the mayor’s plan, according to advocates like Goldfein, is a lack of beds in Safe Haven shelters, which are designed to help chronically street homeless individuals. Those shelters tend to offer more privacy than traditional facilities, as well as support services onsite and...
Homeless New Yorkers have said they feel safer in the hotels and fear a return to shelters will negatively impact their overall health and livelihood. They’ll make another push to stay put at the hotels Monday, the same day the city plans to transfer them back to congregate shelters. Th...
.Cuomo also said that the state would pony up resources for the city’s shelters, telling reporters that “we already pay 55 percent of most of the shelter costs for the city” and noting that “our role, constitutionally, is to make su...
Putting homeless folks up in tiny houses, which would cost less than picking them up and putting them in shelters or hospitals or jails. If folks saw how tiny these tiny houses would be, they wouldn't feel jealous of someone else getting "something for nothing," either. You know what ...
“Disabled homeless sue Mayor de Blasio for moving them back into NYC shelters,” by New York Daily News’ Molly Crane-Newman:“Mayor de Blasio broke the law by rushing homeless, disabled New Yorkers out of hotel rooms for shelters without notice...