New York Announces New System to Process Families Seeking Shelter

December 6, 2004

New York Announces New System to Process Families Seeking Shelter New York City officials announced November 16, 2004, a thorough overhaul of the system for providing shelter to homeless families, replacing it with a streamlined process that supplies beds and social workers more quickly and eliminates the system's Emergency Assistance Unit gateway in the Bronx (New York). Construction of the new, $30 million gateway office will begin February 2006.  The system is to have greater eligibility requirements for families who had previously applied for shelter housing, however, first time applicants are to be easily accepted . . .