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Created in 1993, the department was the first of its kind nationally; with a mission exclusively focused on the issue of homelessness. [7] The Department of Homeless Services was created in response to the growing number of homeless New Yorkers and the 1981 New York Supreme Court Consent Decree that mandates the State provide shelter to all homeless people. [8]
New York's skyrocketing homelessness has overwhelmed shelters. Those now shelters serve 64,000 people, well over NYC’s 2019 record of 39,365 people, according to the NYC Department of Homeless ...
The Bowery Mission is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides hot meals, overnight shelter, and faith-based residential programs for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. [1] Its mission statement reads: "The Bowery Mission meets essential needs and creates transformative community... so that together we overcome homelessness and poverty, and ...
New York City is planning to open two new humanitarian relief centers in the coming days to help house the more than 52,000 asylum seekers now in its care, Mayor Adams announced on Tuesday. The ...
In New York City, where we have more shelters than any other part of the state, the City Bar Justice Center found that 75% of people surveyed in shelters said that more regular access to the ...
Many of the state of New York's largest cities have introduced laws in the last decade prohibiting 'aggressive begging' in some form. The 1993 Loper case was a challenge to the state-wide law in the New York Penal Code §240.35(1) which made it an offence to loiter in a public place for the purpose of begging. New York City Police Department ...
Mayor Adams announced in a press release Thursday that the city plans to house asylum seekers in temporary, refugee-style camps — a move that further illustrates the huge strain a recent influx ...