According to the coalition's report, the Buildings Department alone has issued more than 226 violations to 47 boarding houses for illegal use as a "homeless shelter," "single-room occupancy," or "rooming house," or for serious deficiencies, including sagging walls, cracked and bulging ceilings and serious fire hazards.
They had left homeless shelters, single rooms and overcrowded apartments to trudge, halfway across the city in some cases, to fill their stomachs and their children's hopes.
Detailed field studies in the lower reaches of the creek revealed that potential shelters (single exposed rocks) were closely related to total numbers of sculpin and crayfish which leads to the suspicion that the abundance of shelters can have a limiting effect under natural conditions.
Most of the addresses I get on the consent forms are for general delivery, shelters, single room occupancy addresses and often they just tell me to send the photographs to a relative".
When she became pregnant with their second son, Dayron, Mr. Brown moved with them into a shelter for single mothers and babies.
She refused to go to a shelter for single women — she had heard there were fights in those places, and people stole things.
David Garza, executive director of Henry Street Settlement, which runs three family shelters and one shelter for single women with mental illnesses, said that five years ago his shelters were placing 200 families a year into permanent housing.
2. MUSEO EVITA Under Evita's direction, the Argentine state bought this mansion in the tony Palermo neighborhood in 1947 and turned it into a shelter for single mothers.
So the county and city came up with a plan to turn things around, including a new shelter for single men and women that would include access to social services.
Mr. Koch said he, not the judge, was at fault for ceding power over homeless policy to the courts by making what he now views as an ill-considered agreement binding the city to shelter all single men.
