By Nicole Schubert and Stephen Rex Brown
Homeless people are being housed in sub-human, unsafe conditions at
hotels and other shelters, a new report by Albany pols found.
The report, “Horrors in Homeless Housing,” found that well over half of
the hotels in the city hosting the homeless have hundreds of open
violations for unsafe conditions, like improper fire escapes, lead
paint, crumbling walls and broken toilets.
Nearly all so-called cluster sites — costly apartments rented by the
city for the homeless — had violations for gross conditions like rodent
and roach infestations, mold and failure to install smoke and carbon
monoxide detectors.
"It is unconscionable to allow children and families to be forced to
live in these violation ridden hotels and cluster sites. These sites
lack the basic services that homeless families should have access to and
make living a normal life difficult, if not impossible,” said State
Senator Diane Savino, one of seven senators in the Independent
Democratic Conference, which produced the report.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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