{"id":510,"date":"2013-05-15T03:08:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T03:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=510"},"modified":"2016-12-12T03:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T03:09:08","slug":"joint-statement-by-speaker-christine-c-quinn-and-general-welfare-committee-chair-annabel-palma-re-court-decision-to-continue-city-hotel-program-for-sandy-evacuee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2013\/05\/15\/510\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn and General Welfare Committee Chair Annabel Palma. Re: Court Decision to Continue City Hotel Program for Sandy Evacuee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re relieved the Courts have stopped the Bloomberg Administration from implementing its misguided plan to end the City\u2019s hotel program for Sandy evacuees. Today\u2019s ruling will ensure that the hundreds of families still in hotels are able to transition into permanent housing without further displacement into homeless shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved $1.77 billion dollars in Community Development Block Grant funding\u2014including $9 million for up to two years of rental assistance for households displaced by Sandy\u2014 the City must work to identify and secure permanent housing for all remaining Sandy evacuees without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re relieved the Courts have stopped the Bloomberg Administration from implementing its misguided plan to end the City\u2019s hotel program for Sandy evacuees. Today\u2019s ruling will ensure that the hundreds of families still in hotels are able to transition into permanent housing without further displacement into homeless shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved $1.77 billion dollars in Community Development Block Grant funding\u2014including $9 million for up to two years of rental assistance for households displaced by Sandy\u2014 the City must work to identify and secure permanent housing for all remaining Sandy evacuees without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}