{"id":831,"date":"2011-11-10T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=831"},"modified":"2016-12-12T19:45:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:45:42","slug":"statements-by-council-speaker-christine-c-quinn-and-general-welfare-committee-chair-annabel-palma-on-the-postponement-implementation-of-new-homeless-single-adult-shelter-eligibility-process-because-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2011\/11\/10\/831\/","title":{"rendered":"Statements by Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and General Welfare Committee Chair Annabel Palma on the Postponement Implementation of New Homeless Single Adult Shelter Eligibility Process Because of Court Proceeding."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Quinn:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased that, as a result of today\u2019s court hearing, the City\u2019s dangerous new policy changing the intake procedure for single adults seeking shelter will not go into effect on Monday.  I am encouraged that this matter will be heard by the court, and I continue to call on DHS to permanently reverse course and prevent these harmful changes from going into effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>General Welfare Committee Chair Annabel Palma:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsence of leadership from the Bloomberg Administration on this issue, once again, has the City\u2019s homeless policies shaped more by the court system rather than through collaboration and partnership with stakeholders.  My colleagues and I stand ready to engage in a serious conversation as to how we can appropriately address the City\u2019s homelessness crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Quinn:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased that, as a result of today\u2019s court hearing, the City\u2019s dangerous new policy changing the intake procedure for single adults seeking shelter will not go into effect on Monday.  I am encouraged that this matter will be heard by the court, and I continue to call on DHS to permanently reverse course and prevent these harmful changes from going into effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>General Welfare Committee Chair Annabel Palma:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsence of leadership from the Bloomberg Administration on this issue, once again, has the City\u2019s homeless policies shaped more by the court system rather than through collaboration and partnership with stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2011\/11\/10\/831\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/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-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}