2007: FAITH LEADERS JOIN PTH, CALL FOR AN END TO ABUSIVE TREATMENT OF POOR AND HOMELESS NEW YORKERS Call

PTH continued conducting outreach to families applying for shelter at the PATH office in the South Bronx. While PTH no longer had an EAU or shelter campaign, we continued to learn of families who had vouchers becoming homeless again, often for non-payment of rent by HRA. PTH continued to document and to educate the public about how the homeless system continued to fail homeless New Yorkers.

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“The city has a problem: Bloomberg promised he would reduce the number of homeless New Yorkers by two-thirds by 2010. But people are still poor, and they can’t afford housing. So now, the city is making it even harder for families to enter the shelter system – they’re punishing the people who need housing for the simple fact that shelter numbers aren’t going down.” Sophia Bryant, Leader of Picture the Homeless Rental Subsidies Program.