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The city changed its emergency shelter policy yesterday at 5PM, vowing to turn away homeless families who had previously been deemed ineligible (because they could, potentially, stay with relatives or a friend).
Previously, if a family went to the PATH office after business hours, they could be given emergency shelter for the night - and could reapply the next day. Some families seemed to rely on this opportunity and the city had claimed that a small group of families with alternate housing options had abused the system. But City Councilman Bill DeBlasio said, "For someone to keep coming back to that office and sitting for hours on end, that's not someone playing a game, that's someone who doesn't have an option."
WNBC has video of families getting anxious about the new policy. One woman laments that she's 6 months pregnant and can't be turned out on the street because that's how she lost her baby last year. And via the Coalition for the Homeless, which criticizes the new policy for allowing families to go into dangerous situations, look at this video of a family given housing by the city's homeless services agency - housing with ridiculous violations. When the My9 News crew tries to speak with NYC Homeless Services Commissioner Rob Hess, he runs away.
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The homeless program
Needs expansion--
How about the empty
Gracie Mansion?
Hmmm, you're homeless? Here's some advice - don't get fucking PREGNANT.
this guy hess has no heart.
hey hess, I'll be waiting for you in Hell.
see you there.
I'll be waiting for many from the posts I've seen here.
See you guys there soon.
I believe Hess stated in a news interview to the homeless to "go Home". meaning they have a home.
I suggest the COH to go republican and give out his home address. Just like what the GOP did to the kid who told about his experience with SCHIP.
"I got turned away for being pregnant at a homeless shelter and I lost my baby. So i'm still homeless but I got pregnant again." this is why I never give money to charity. All these people are so fucking selfish. Think about your unborn child. How are you going to raise them in the environment you are in now? People only think about their base desires and not about the consequences of their actions and then ask society to help them out.
O RLY? You weren't going to give to charity anyway you selfish prick of a prick.
thankfully, lead is still cheap.
Homeless in mean and cold New York City? It's cheaper to give them one-way bus tickets to warm, sunny Florida.
Mayor Bloomberg and his commissioners seek to hold down the number of homeless people for whom they must provide shelter -- after all sheltering the home costs money. Homeless families in the shelter system drift to the top of priority lists for real housing -- so those husbanding scarce resources invent reasons to keep people out of the system
In a standard and time honored bureaucratic two-step, Mayor & his agents define the problem away. Applicants for shelter are not "homeless" if they have a friend somewhere willing to put them on a couch. Homeless people doubling and tripling up in other people's apartments become invisible to the Mayor. They're no longer his problem.
The homeless still need shelter, regardless of the creative definitional roadblocks the Mayor puts in the way. Thus this insane battle. The only true way out of this is to provide a whole lot more affordable housing for the people who need it.
homeless, but somehow able to aford Rocawear, Fubu, Baby Phat & sean John outfits for the whole family!