mowotlarx OP t1_j7wt5p4 wrote
This is disgusting and cruel. No justification for this.
>Runaway and homeless youth who visit any of New York City’s overnight drop-in centers are now prohibited from “resting” there — and the providers have been ordered to remove any cots or resting places, THE CITY has learned.
doodle77 t1_j7wxy80 wrote
The justification is that there are many requirements for a shelter that the city has agreed to in its consent order with coalition for the homeless. These "drop-in centers" can't meet those requirements, so the city can't let people sleep at them lest it be found not in compliance.
mowotlarx OP t1_j7x3l4h wrote
They've been letting homeless kids rest on cots for years there. There's no point in having these spaces open overnight if they refuse to let these kids rest. The city could easily fix the issue and refuse to.
mtempissmith t1_j7xq9rn wrote
I tried one of the adult centers while I was street homeless and they actually had a respite bed program that worked with various churches where they would send people to eat and sleep. This was pre-pandemic and they later got caught keeping client money that they were not supposed to be keeping. They had old people basically living there and they'd take most of their disability checks for feeding them and letting them sleep in a respite bed or in a chair every night.
It could be that incidents like this are why they're doing this. They probably want the kids in safer shelter situations. We had a few younger people there while I was there and it was not that safe. The men sexually harassed the women if we had to sleep in the chairs all the time. I was a fully grown adult and it was hard. I can just imagine having to deal with that as a kid.
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