Sentence examples for housing emergencies from inspiring English sources
Now a souring economy threatens to increase housing emergencies, and government cutbacks could further encourage psychiatric hospitals and prisons to dump former patients and inmates on the shelters or the streets.
Studies in the 1990's found that the chronically homeless -- deranged, debilitated people who dominate the public image of the problem -- occupied half the single adult shelter beds at any one time, but that many more people with fewer, if any, disabilities passed through the shelters during housing emergencies.
Proponents of permanent supportive housing cite research such as that by Dennis P. Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania concluding that limited-term housing with clinical support isn't the best response for housing emergencies and is inadequate for the chronically homeless population.
New York State defines a "housing emergency" as a vacancy rate below 5%.
Five percent is the statutory benchmark for declaring a housing emergency, allowing rent regulations to be continued.
While the overall number of people without housing is down across the country, some areas have declared a state of housing emergency.
So the law can be changed and should be when there's a housing emergency like we're having right now".
Some worry the expanding presence of short-term rentals is worsening the housing emergency in Santa Cruz county, which is home to Airbnb's "most popular" rental.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg signed a bill on Monday that extended the city's participation in rent regulation for another three years by redeclaring a state of housing emergency, even as a challenge to rent regulation laws looms in the United States Supreme Court.
The city has had a vacancy rate of less than 5 percent since the department began keeping track more than 40 years ago, which means it has been in a state of housing emergency for all that time.
Those proposals came as a new housing survey indicated that the city's vacancy rate dropped to 3.19percentt from 4.01percentt over the last three years -- with 5percentthehe statutory level required for declaring a housing emergency and extending rent regulation.
