Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Mayor de Blasio and DHS switches successful homeless shelter for women into one for men


WPIX

 A homeless shelter on West 107th Street in Manhattan Valley, currently housing women, is expected to transition to single adult men in October. And much of the neighborhood is not happy. 

"Once men are involved here, the landscape could potentially change and everybody is concerned," neighbor Ali Jafry said.He lives next door to the shelter and said in recent years the women have been good neighbors.

The New York City Department of Homeless Services recently announced the change and Manhattan's Community Board 7 held a meeting Tuesday night to address it. But a DHS representative didn't come.

 "Up until 4 o'clock they were coming. At 4 o'clock they called the office to say they can't come," CB 7 Chair Roberta Semer told PIX11 News. This did not sit well with the shelter's neighbors. 

One man at the open meeting said, "Why are they not here? Why are they hiding from us?" The current shelter houses 120 women and most have jobs. Tari Wheeler said this shelter helped her get her life together. 

The Department of Homeless Services said it will move the women to permanent housing or another shelter. 

While Wheeler doesn't know where she will be sent, she is also worried about the kids in the neighborhood. "No offense on the men, but there are small children around here. We have to look out for the small children besides ourselves," Wheeler said.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

since the attack on 4 homeless men in Chinatown Diblaz has tried to stay ahead of the criticism and scrutiny by just not coming out of city hall and addressing the press. It seems that the media is his cryptonite. The news media must not back off but rub it in his face since his policies are partly to blame.

Anonymous said...

ITS THE FIRST LADY WHO SHOULD BE GIVING EVERYONE AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY WE THE TAX PAYER GAVE HER PROGRAM $$$ MILLIONS $$ OF DOLLARS AND RESULTED IN ALMOST ZERO IMPROVEMENT OF THIS CRISIS THAT SEES NO END !!

Anonymous said...

Anything and everything this slob touches turns to s___.

Retired Rabble Rouser said...

Ugh. Everything that’s not broken gets “fixed” by this administration, then they don’t fix what’s obviously broken!