Friday, March 3, 2017

Is a Homeless Shelter Coming to Your Neighborhood?


Check Crain's Map
 
By Rosa Goldensohn and Gerald Schifman

Where will the de Blasio administration put 90 new homeless shelters it promised this week? It has revealed the location of just one—Crown Heights in Brooklyn—but data obtained by Crain's indicate where the rest will be.

The shelter destinations can be roughly divined from a spreadsheet showing where New Yorkers last lived before applying for shelter, as the city's new policy is to house the homeless in their own communities.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday called it “a borough-by-borough, neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach that will ensure that people are in shelter … as close to the neighborhood they come from as possible.”

The de Blasio administration plans to close 360 shelters as it creates 90 new ones in the next five years. Some of the new shelters will be in the same buildings as ones that have been closed. The rest will go into other buildings or be built from scratch, officials said.

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Source: Crain's New York Business (via The Empire Report) 

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