Welfare Motels: A Waste of Federal Funds, Harmful to Homeless Families : Hearing Before the Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, November 19, 1993 |
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AFDC affordable housing agencies Andrew Cuomo apartment average AVIATION SUBCOMMITTEE BANE BANKS Bassuk become homeless Boston Legal Chairman committee CONG CONGRE CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cooking facilities cost crisis Cuomo Department develop dollars Duen eliminated Emergency Assistance emergency shelter families with children family homelessness family shelter Federal Government federal reimbursement FLAKE flexibility going GRESS THE LIBRARY homeless children homeless families homeless students homelessness prevention hotels and motels hotels or motels housing programs housing resources Human Services income issue Jersey LIBRARY OF CONGRESS living Massachusetts million month NOVEMBER 19 number of families payments percent permanent housing PETERSON prevent homelessness problem of homelessness public assistance Rafferty rehabilitation rental subsidies RESS SARD Secretary Section SHAYS shelter system Social Services solutions Steven Banks strategy SUBCOMMITTEE subsidized housing testimony Thank transitional housing unfit transient facilities welfare hotels York City
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Page 36 - Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. It is the great molding force of mind and character. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons.
Page 22 - ... shelters and reduce the numbers of families entering the emergency shelter system will, in the words of Jonathan Kozol, result in the. creation of a "diseased, distorted, undereducated and malnourished generation of small children who, without dramatic intervention on a scale for which the nation seems entirely unprepared, will grow into the certainty of unemployable adulthood.
Page 21 - Federal matching is available only for emergency assistance which the State authorizes during one period of 30 consecutive days in any 12 consecutive months, including payments which are to meet needs which arose before such 30-day period or are for such needs as rent which extend beyond the 30-day period.
Page 36 - Children of parents of worthy character, suffering from temporary misfortune, and children of reasonably efficient and deserving mothers who are without the support of the normal breadwinner, should as a rule be kept with their parents, such aid being given as may be necessary to maintain suitable homes for the rearing of the children.
Page 148 - State law, families are regularly placed in emergency housing in hotel rooms with inadequate heat and hot water; bathrooms that lack privacy and are frequently inoperable; single rooms with one or two beds, even for families with several children; filthy, vermin-infested mattresses; no pillows, sheets, blankets, or towels; no cribs for infants; windows without guards; and doors with broken locks.
Page 151 - The behaviors most frequently mentioned include short attention span, withdrawal, aggression, speech delays, sleep disorders, regressive behaviors, and immature motor behavior (Rafferty & Shinn, 1991).
Page 147 - ... Homeless Family Rights Project of The Legal Aid Society. In view of the desperate circumstances that homeless families continue to endure, we welcome this opportunity to again review the circumstances which currently confront homeless families with children in New York City. In this testimony, we will describe the dimensions of the continuing crisis experienced by homeless families in welfare hotels and other forms of inadequate emergency housing in New York City, and necessary federal responses...
Page 36 - Letter to the President of the United States, Embodying the Conclusions of the Conference on the Care of Dependent Children Held by Invitation of the President in Washington, DC, January 25 and 26, HON.
Page 5 - With respect to 20 per centum of the dwelling units in any project made subject to a contract under this section after the date of enactment of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 [enacted Aug.
Page 103 - IOC date, as I understand it, and please correct me if I am wrong, presently is . Mr.