Posted on April 22, 2016 by Jeff Stein in City & State City & State, By Jeff Stein Amid the largest restructuring of city homeless services in decades, members of the city council’s Committee on General Welfare pressed Steven Banks, commissioner of the newly minted Department of Social Services, on the impact that his agency’s sweeping reforms will have on nonprofit providers. Banks began his testimony by stressing the importance of contributions from nonprofits during the recently concluded 90-day review of homeless services, specifically citing client focus groups convened by the Coalition for the Homeless, Picture the Homeless and VOCAL.
