1. Brown spoke to and answered questions from a group of about three dozen homeless service providers, advocates, outreach committee members and a handful of homeless. 2. But despite neighbors, business owners and original intentions, the alliance no longer considers moving homeless services out of the Capitol area an option. 3. But it is also intended as a defense of its own franchise as a provider of homeless services. 4. But Susan Wiviott, an associate commissioner for the homeless services department, said that workfare did not figure in the planned cuts. 5. Carl Siciliano, the director of homeless services at SafeSpace, says the decision feels like a betrayal. 6. Cuomo says the court decision forced him to act to protect the integrity of federal funding for homeless services. 7. Despite it all, he sees no progress and no hope for the future if the homeless services, even consolidated into new buildings, remain. 8. Hom describes the Village as a one-stop campus of homeless services with eight separate centers covering two square city blocks. 9. Last weekend, there was a sharp increase in the number of families deemed ineligible for homeless services at the center. 10. New zoning ordinances were created to limit homeless services downtown. |