The phrase "access shelters" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the ability to reach or utilize shelters, often in contexts related to safety, housing, or emergency services.
Example: "In times of natural disasters, it is crucial for communities to have the means to access shelters quickly."
Alternatives: "reach shelters" or "utilize shelters".
Most homeless people there are considered unsheltered, meaning tens of thousands of people can't access shelters and are forced to sleep in streets or parks.
During a Code Blue, the city relaxes the usual intake process for people who want to access shelters and "drop-in" centers and doubles the number of teams that search for homeless people at risk.
Over the past two years, advocates have complained the city is making it harder for families to access shelters, an approach that could artificially lower the official tally of homeless families.
Most are on the streets because they cannot afford housing, or are unable to access shelters.
Perhaps nowhere more than violence against women is Afghanistan's inability to support and to serve its population more painfully visible -- when women and girls seek protection and/or recourse from the government, they are unable to access shelters or justice, and are often further molested by officials such as the police in their attempts to seek help.
And while roughly 12,000 individuals access shelter every year in the city, that figure doesn't include those who are turned away due to a variety of reasons.
Instead, the city in late 2010 passed new legislation that made it harder for homeless families to access shelter by requiring that they prove they were D.C. residents.
Eight Warmblood horses were tested each for 2 days, kept individually for 24 h in two paddocks with access to shelters A and B, or shelters A and C, respectively.
(One factor, of course, was that Israel's population apparently had more access to shelters that offered greater protection from Hezbollah's bombs).
Five tents will be set up in area villages to provide shelter for families who lost their homes but cannot easily access existing shelters.
Last week, Mayor Bloomberg and his administration announced plans to close access to shelters for thousands of vulnerable homeless New Yorkers, by implementing new bureaucratic barriers to enter the shelter system.
