New York Announces New System to Process Families Seeking Shelter
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A streamlined process supplies beds and social workers more quickly and eliminates the system's rundown gateway in the Bronx.
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Text messages could soon be at the heart of a system to help people cope in the aftermath of disasters.
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By Melanie D. Scott, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 4--For nearly 20 years, the Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team has worked to provide temporary shelter and food to the homeless throughout the county.
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The protesters coming to New York are receiving an outpouring of hospitality from scores of people who are opening their homes as temporary, free shelter.
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State officials will step in and help local communities if they are overwhelmed during a disaster &#151; as they were in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit &#151; according to a new Homeland Security Department plan that tries to clarify who's in charge during emergencies.
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The city announced 10 winners of a $100,000 open design competition "to generate solutions for post-disaster provisional housing." The premise: a Category 3 hurricane, with 38,000 families left homeless.
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New York has launched a program to welcome demonstrators coming to the city at the end of the month to protest the Republican presidential nominating convention. City officials hope the effort will ensure that the rallies are calm and, at the same time, ...
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By Autumn Grooms, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 11--Local For Goodness' Sake agencies said the needs of many area families have already been met this holiday season.  "We've just been ever so lucky," said Rose Vatland, New Horizons Shelter & Women's Center legal advocate.
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A program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development converts distressed public housing into mixed-income communities.
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The National Weather Service is revamping the way it has issued severe weather warnings for decades with a new system designed to mark a geographic bull's eye where a storm will hit.
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The Government's own advisory group says urgent action is needed to help vulnerable households
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Government officials, environmental advocates and a representative of a luxury co-op building have agreed to meet tomorrow to discuss new lodgings for Manhattan&#39;s most famous homeless couple
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New York would become the first state requiring all addiction treatment programs to help their clients quit smoking under a rule proposed yesterday.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 19 -- Mothers deciding to place their infants for adoption deserve better counseling, more time to change their minds, and more support in trying to keep track of the children they relinquish, a leading adoption institute recommends in a sweeping new report.
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With the coldest weather of the season expected to sweep through the Washington region today, several jurisdictions are extending shelter hours and mobilizing workers to try to provide shelter for everyone who needs it.
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The New York City Police Department is about to start work on the third phase of a massive data-warehouse project that is creating a single repository for most of the city's crime records and crime data.
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SINGAPORE : The Government has announced new initiatives to help parents and families cope with the demands of having children. The Ministry for Community Development, Youth