New York City has an array of public and private homeless outreach shelters and programs designed to assist those with the most dire need of support. The city's Department of Homeless Services oversees the operation and funding of all shelters. Many shelters accept only cash donations, but some...
NYC homeless boom puts shelters in lap of wealthyMEGHAN BARR
New York City's subway system has become a haven for homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic. Patrick Warren, the Metropolitan Transit Authority's chief safety officer, said the homeless issue has become a "pandemic in itself." According to the local Department of Social Servi...
Another man waiting for food and a blanket said shelters were for people who were “slow.” At the stop outside Harlem Hospital, a man named Michael said shelters involved “too much paperwork,” and that he preferred to sleep on the train -- something that would become impossible later in...
unaccompanied youth – a group that includes individuals under the age of 18 and those between the ages of 18 and 24 years who are not part of a family with children or accompanied by a parent or guardian while being homeless – increased for a second straight year to 38,170 in 2024, ...
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This is not a happy story: the NYC chapter of Habitat for Humanity took over $20 million in stimulus money to renovate abandoned buildings in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood -- but wound up helping push residents out of apartments there, and even into homelessness, in order to acqu...
These good people try every day through donations and working with homeless organizations to better the situation. They get more shelters and housing built. I just don't think that will completely help the homeless-hopeless situation. It is a situation that is a real by-product of our system...
while minimizing re-traumatization and creating psychological safety. Carefully chosen case studies beautifully illustrate how these principles can be put into practice in a variety of settings–from street outreach to shelters to special education classrooms–and are attentive to the impact of racism ...
Rats and rot: NYC report rips family homeless sheltersBy JENNIFER PELTZ