Shelter
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World
New York City Will No Longer Shelter Many Migrant Adults After 30 Days
A legal agreement scales back the longstanding requirement that the city provide shelter to homeless people who seek it. Families…
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World
Families Are Moved From Shelter Where Police Fired Stun Gun at Migrant
Several families, including that of the man who recorded a video of officers using a stun gun on a migrant…
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World
Why a $25 Million Plan to Relocate N.Y.C. Migrant Families Is Struggling
A program designed to resettle 1,250 families across New York State has moved only about 170 households, barely easing the…
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Politics
Can Domestic Violence Victims Have Safety Without Secrecy?
I once visited a domestic violence shelter in New England. It was a small, nondescript Cape Cod-style house, jammed between…
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World
Nearly 2,000 Migrants Are Evacuated From Brooklyn Tent Shelter Before Storm
New York City evacuated on Tuesday about 500 families with children — nearly 2,000 people in total — from a…
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World
New York City Hid Realities of Homelessness Crisis, Report Finds
City officials manipulated public data for years and delayed reporting that homeless families had stayed overnight at an intake center…
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World
North Korea Fires Artillery Near Border With South Korea
The South asked nearby islanders to seek shelter before it launched a military exercise in the disputed waters and chided…
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World
Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes
New York officials have escaped scrutiny for repeated failures to help homeless mentally ill people, a New York Times investigation…
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World
At least 24 people were killed in a strike on Gaza school used as a shelter, the U.N. says.
A strike this weekend on a school run by the United Nations that was being used for shelter by thousands…
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World
An ‘Unimaginable’ Death Toll Among Anchorage’s Homeless Residents
With hundreds living outdoors and temperatures plummeting, Alaska’s largest city is struggling to halt a rising death toll among homeless…