31.   Carolyn had helped set up a program for homeless families with small children.

32.   City officials have said that children in homeless families who are expelled from the shelter system could be taken into foster care.

33.   Consider, she said, a single mother who buys her first home or a homeless family that manages to find shelter for the night.

34.   Court orders and state rules require the city to place homeless families in shelters immediately after they apply for help, but the city often fails to do so.

35.   For the first time ever, there are now vacancies at the transitional housing where the city sends homeless families before finding them permanent apartments.

36.   Here, Central Arizona Shelter Services lends the living quarters to homeless families until they can scrounge enough money to get their own places.

37.   Homeless families and street children have been cleared off the streets and moved to public housing for the time being.

38.   Homeless families sometimes stay at them as long as three months.

39.   Homeless families boarding buses at the Emergency Assistance Unit in the Bronx for a night in a city shelter Thursday.

40.   Hundreds of children were living in the building, and the city said it would refuse to issue rent checks to homeless families housed there.