Department of Homeless Services

Homelessness Up 23 Percent In New York City: Survey

Posted 05.01.2012

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New York City's homeless population has increased 23 percent in one year, according to a new survey. On Jan. 30, the Department of Homeless Servic...

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Saki Knafo

Amid A Rising Tide Of Poverty, A Proposal To Change New York's Homeless Shelters

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.07.2012

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As a tide of poverty rises throughout the country, the Bronx stands out as a place where the waters have climbed especially high. So it's no great sur...

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Eleanor Goldberg

Counting Homeless For A Night Leads To Unsheltered Populations In Need

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 01.31.2012

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While most New Yorkers were long curled up in bed at 1 a.m. Tuesday, Victoria Mohl was fighting back the January wind as she beelined for a shivering...

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NYC May Offer Residents Furniture If They Take In The Homeless

Posted 01.20.2012

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In order to relieve overcrowding in homeless shelters, the city's Department of Homeless Services may employ a plan that requires single adults curren...

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City Council Might Sue Michael Bloomberg

Posted 11.28.2011

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New York City Council is expected to file a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg Tuesday, seeking to stop a new law that would require homeless adults to p...

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Record Number Of Homeless Stayed At New York Shelters

Posted 06.11.2011

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A record number of people slept in New York's homeless shelters last year, according to a new report from the advocacy group Coalition for the Homeles...

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Program to Keep Homeless Out of Shelters Terminated

David Noriega | Posted 05.31.2011

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David Noriega

New York City will soon terminate the Advantage program, which helps formerly homeless families pay rent in private apartments.

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15,000 Formerly Homeless NYC Families May Find Themselves Back In Shelters

Posted 05.25.2011

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Recent budget cuts to a New York City program that helps families get out of homeless shelters and into apartments have sparked controversy, starting ...

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Dept. Of Homeless Services Surveys Those Living On Cold Streets

nydailynews.com | By Sarah Armaghan and Daniel Beekman | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 3,600 volunteers fanned out across frigid streets overnight Monday to count the city's homeless. The annual survey is organized by the Depa...

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Authorities Go AWOL At Contentious Homeless Shelter Meeting

Posted 05.25.2011

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Manhattan residents were already irked when they arrived for a meeting about repurposing an Upper West Side hotel into a homeless shelter. But when go...

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New York Study Leaves 200 Struggling Families To Fend For Themselves As Experiment

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Mayor Bloomberg stepped up to defend the experiment on homeless families, which bars 200 families from taxpayer-funded program homeless assist...

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Sleepless In New York: My Night at the HOPE Street Survey (SLIDESHOW)

Boonsri Dickinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Boonsri Dickinson

One night every year, volunteers walk thousands of miles on the grids of the city, Queen, Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx, and climb through the underworld of the subways lines to count the homeless.

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