Homeless Families in New York Lose a Loophole

Source: nytimes



October 11, 2007
Homeless Families in New York Lose a Loophole
By LESLIE KAUFMAN

Beginning tomorrow night, the city will stop giving emergency shelter to families who are reapplying for a place to stay after being ruled ineligible, officials said yesterday.

The decision means that families who apply for benefits but are turned down — usually because the city believes they can stay with a friend or a relative — will find themselves without shelter as they reapply one or two more times.

The toughening of the policy, which follows a rise during the summer in the number of families given emergency shelter in free public apartments, was criticized as cruel by advocates for the homeless and by some of the people it will affect. But it was defended by officials as a necessary tightening of a munificent policy that was being repeatedly abused by a few families.

The city had allowed families who had been ruled ineligible to be given shelter for one night if they reapplied after 5 p.m. Some families using this emergency provision would keep their belongings with them and repeat the process, moving to a new shelter the next day, often late at night, the city said.
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"The city’s decision is the latest turn in the Bloomberg administration’s long-running efforts to reduce homelessness in the city."

So by simply telling people that they are not homeless, they are no longer homeless!
Brilliant plan!

And sadly, he'll find many people to support him.

Every region of the world has it's easy targets...But it seems that the homeless are a target in every part of the world.

and just denied it by saying, "What homeless people?".

And I was starting to consider him a decent person too...
Oh well, once a evil gop bastard....

helping those that are homeless. I am sure it is because we are a "Christian Nation" No way would Christ ever have wanted to help anyone that had lost their home.He would have insisted we use Nukes instead..

why would you enact this policy any time of the year?

Let me see if I've got this straight. You, as a New Yorker, are now under some sort of obligation to let a "friend" (no matter how loosely defined) -- and perhaps her children as well -- move in to your presumably already cramped New York apartment?

Oh, right, I forgot. All New Yorkers, especially those who have friends who are homeless, live in fabulous mansions off Fifth, like Mikey does. :sarcasm:

Coming up next: Someone gets evicted because Mikey forced them to take in someone who wasn't on the lease. Count on it.

can the City determine this? :wtf:

Try "Homeless Families in New York Lose a Last Resort".