New York City is set to hire more than 100 temporary workers to track homeless people bedding down in the subway system as overnight transit service resumes, officials said Tuesday.
A total of 112 people will begin nine-month stints as “street outreach associates” logging observations and reporting the locations of street homeless New Yorkers to the Department of Homeless Services’ (DHS) Joint Command Center, according to a job posting on nyc.gov. DHS now employs about 85 people who oversee and assist with outreach efforts that are mostly performed by nonprofit contractor BRC.
The initiative will pay just under $21 an hour to new hires tasked with “daily canvass observations, information gathering, and assessments,” the job listing states. The new staffers will also log “observations of apparent homeless individuals using handheld devices” and perform “low level engagements with homeless clients.”
City Council votes stymie police responses and alternatives May 19 2021
Next year s budget will be reviewed on June 17 and take effect on July 1, the start of the next fiscal year.
Even though shootings and visible homelessness are increasing in Portland, the City Council rebuffed pleas from both the Portland police union and police critics when it tentatively approved a $5.7 billion budget for the next fiscal year on Thursday, May 13.
As a result, city residents will not immediately see a beefed-up response to gun violence or alternatives to police responses to 9-1-1 calls.
Before the unanimous vote on the total budget, Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner urged the council to increase funding for the Portland Police Bureau and to reinstate the Gun Violence Reduction Team that was abolished last year. In a morning press release, he blamed the record increase in shootings and killings on the team being abolished.
A souper-human effort to create a homely hub for the homeless What started as sandwiches, soup and music on a pavement is now a fully fledged homeless support service 05 May 2021 - 19:41
Kerry Hoffman was fed up with the sight of homeless people eking out a living inside Cape Town’s Company Gardens. But instead of ignoring them like most other people, she joined them by hosting a homeless get-together.
From her car she produced sandwiches, soup and a loudspeaker to play music. “I would mount the pavement in my car, between two trees I felt like it was my garage,” Hoffman said. “I was opening up a space for people to gather.”..
Philadelphia is testing out a new program that will pay landlords to house LGBTQ young people who have been experiencing homelessness, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Way Home Project, run by the city’s Office of Homeless Services, the emergency housing provider SELF Inc., and the William Way LGBT Community Center, will offer a year of rental support to landlords to house the tenants, totaling around $400,000, according to the Inquirer. Around 40% of unhoused people in the region between the ages of 18 and 26 are LGBTQ, the Inquirer says. Many, the paper notes, also “experience family rejection, discrimination, harassment, and violence, experts on homelessness say.”
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