Concerned that a city proposal to penalize homeless adults who do not follow shelter rules will put more people on the street, dozens of City Council members are pushing the Bloomberg administration to instead work with the Coalition for the Homeless to create a panel that would oversee shelter operations.
A deal in the works between the city housing agency and a handful of banks could soon give the city more affordable housing.
While the Department of Homeless Services struggles to sell its survey of homeless New Yorkers as accurate, the agency faces another numbers challenge: devising a computer registry for a more extensive count–that will determine how much federal cash the city gets.
The city on Friday asked a panel of state appellate court judges to let the Department of Homeless Services penalize single adults who do not follow certain shelter system rules — and promised to have a system in place to ensure that clients who are too ill to follow those rules are not penalized.
Can experts do what 20 years of court couldn’t?
After weeks of negotiations, the Bloomberg administration on Friday agreed not to place in foster care the children of homeless families that stay too long in the shelter system — and a 20-year-old lawsuit was settled.
As HIV drug prices soar, even well regarded government insurance programs are limiting their services for people fighting the virus.
The city’s pension funds last week pressured a handful of Fortune 500 companies to enforce policies forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation–or face losing their investments.
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