New York homeless people report little sign of mayor's outreach initiative
Source: The Guardian UK
Tens of thousands of homeless men, women and children are struggling to live in New York City, but dozens of homeless people made it clear in interviews that it will take more than outreach by the mayor and governor to bring them in from the cold.
Not one of them said they had been approached by outreach workers that Mayor Bill de Blasio promised last month would be out on the streets, with an ambitious goal of canvassing every block, every day, in a seven-mile stretch of Manhattan, aiming to persuade street people to come indoors.
A city spokeswoman said on Friday the program would not be fully operational until sometime in March when winter is almost over.
And despite temperatures that dipped below freezing, none of the about three dozen homeless interviewed last week said they had been involuntarily taken inside following Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order instructing police to forcibly remove the homeless from the street once the temperature drops that low.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/10/new-york-homeless-people-report-little-sign-of-mayors-outreach-initiative
Temperatures dropped into the teens and single digits here in the midwest through last night, and we still saw the homeless out on the street corners with their signs!
This is a nationwide problem, people!!!
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