City’s Homeless Families Live Amongst Rodents, Roaches and Mold Posted on March 14, 2015 by Narmeen Choudhury in PIX11 A 54-page report put together by New York City’s Department of Investigation highlights deplorable living conditions in some of our city’s shelters. The DOI sent its own team of investigators out to 25 different shelters over the course of a year and their ..Read More
Probe Faults City Homeless System as Inherited Problems Multiply Posted on March 12, 2015 by Sally Goldenberg and Brendan Cheney in Capital New York New York City’s homeless population is not only at record levels, but conditions in city-run, taxpayer-funded shelters are filthy, unhealthy and dangerous, according to a report released this morning by the city Department of Investigation. ..Read More
Review of New York Shelter System Finds Hundreds of Violations Posted on March 12, 2015 by Winnie Hu in The New York Times The New York City homeless shelter system that was supposed to provide a refuge for families with children instead forced some of them to live in squalid conditions that included a dead rat in an apartment, garbage strewn in hallways and stairways, and a puddl ..Read More
Dept. of Homeless Services Shelters Families in Vermin-Infested Sites Plagued by Health, Safety Code Violations: Report Posted on March 12, 2015 by Greg B. Smith in New York Daily News The city is sending homeless families to vermin-infested shelters plagued by fire, health and safety code violations for which taxpayers are paying crazy rent that’s sometimes triple the going rate, a Department of Investigation probe has found. The report f ..Read More
Rats and Rot: NYC Report Rips Family Homeless Shelters Posted on March 12, 2015 by Jennifer Peltz in Associated Press One family of six was living in a homeless-shelter apartment where a dead rat festered on the floor for two days. Another family had no living-room furniture and had been without electricity for days. At a different homeless family shelter, a puddle of urine s ..Read More
NYC Outreach Program has Moved Nearly 30% of Subway Stations’ ‘Chronic Homeless’ Into Shelters Posted on March 10, 2015 by Pete Donohue in New York Daily News An unprecedented city outreach program has amassed a caseload of nearly 1,000 “chronic homeless” who took up residency in subway stations and trains, the Daily News has learned. Social workers and clinicians in the program have convinced 261 of these hardc ..Read More
NYC’s Homeless Turning to LaGuardia Airport for Safe Shelter Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jay Dow in Pix11 To the casual observer, Rick could easily pass as just another traveler as he takes a break at LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B food court. But Rick knows there is no boarding pass in his immediate future. In fact, long after you have gone to sleep for the nig ..Read More
After the Tension: Is a Homeless Shelter a Threat? Posted on March 11, 2015 by Joanna Halina Socha in NYCity Lens Greenpoint residents had resisted the idea of shelter built in their midst, but some find the reality to be harmless. ..Read More
NYC’s Record Homeless Population Seeks Shelter at LaGuardia Posted on March 10, 2015 by Martin Z. Braun in Bloomberg Business Volunteers of America, which has offices at LaGuardia and JFK, counted a monthly average of 45 chronic homeless people at LaGuardia in 2014, an 80 percent increase over the average month in 2011. On the coldest nights, as many as 50 took refuge at LaGuardia in ..Read More