Families now the majority entering New York City's Homeless system (school, programs)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/ny...gewanted=print

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Bloomberg has done everything he can to cut welfare to the bone. I know someone in what is referred to as "transitional housing". They make it impossible for you to get out. They stripe any dignity you have away. They enter apartments unannounced and do spot checks and if everything isn't in perfect order, to their standardss, they threaten to throw you out. Its nothing but rules, rules, rules with on-site caseworkers overloaded with cases. The person I know is trying to get into a training program to learn skills that would allow her to get a job, but nothing is being done about it. It's almost a year that she is in the shelter with her son. They say they try to place people in locations close to child's school - BS. The boy travels 1-1/2 hours each way to go to school and they have never offered her any housing near the school.

NYC found the $70 million it has to pay back for medical fraud (under Bloomberg), and has cut programs left, right and center. No more Section 8, tried to stop the Advantage program and people lost their homes, food trucks go to the shelters and the food distributed is rotten and old.

The only thing he offers is to pay a one way air ticket for each family member and will give 4 months rent for housing (submission of a lease, which anyone can create) anywhere you want to go. One family went to Paris, paid for under Bloomberg's program.

The more he tries to get rid of people who need assistance, and the more he cuts programs, NY is ending up with more people on assistance.