Mayor to Streamline City Bureaucracy in Attempt to Better Help the Homeless

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http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2016/04/11/mayor-to-streamline-city-bureaucracy-in-attempt-to-better-help-the-homeless.html

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has instituted a new plan to improve services for homeless people after a 90-day review.  An new essential part of driving down the homeless rate is prevention.  Over the last 20 years New York homelessness has increased over 115%.  "Shelters used to be overwhelmingly single adults, now shelters are predominantly, people in shelters are predominantly families," de Blasio said.  The mayor launch a program called HomeStat which uses outreach teams to bring people in off the street, and reforming the conditions and improving security, responding to longstanding concerns about violence and illegal activity in shelters.  To improve accountability and track results the city's Department of Homeless Services and human resources administration will now answer to one commissioner.

A homeless man sleeping in the streets of New York city.

 The mayor of New, Bill de Blasio, is taking important steps to reduce homelessness in New York City.  Blasio is by passing all the red tape and launching programs.  He took the bureaucracy and speed it through the process in order to help the homeless New Yorkers now.  The new structure of the Department of Homeless Services and human resources administration, which is a civil service branch, will allow the information to all go to one place.  A few bureaucrats are upset and want extra steps to be taken.  They believe they need to hire someone who can represent the homeless in meetings.  Because of the Open Meeting Law (1976) the spokesperson could attend and speak on the conditions of the homeless.

Sonia Gonzalez, a homeless woman whose hoard of grocery and laundry is the scourge of the Upper West Side, drags carts up Tenth Avenue.