Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. A new report from the state comptroller pins the surge in subway homelessness on “shoddy” work and lack of oversight by the city and the MTA of the nonprofit they pay to help steer […]
Bowery Residents Committee
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Punch Cards for Homeless Dangle Hope of Housing, Deliver Waits
On any given night, more than 3,500 homeless New Yorkers live on the streets, often because they refuse to bed down in city shelters they say are too dangerous. Many share a goal: placement in apartments or residential rooms under a program called Safe Haven. But there’s a catch. To qualify, many say, they have […]