Bronx Landlords in City-Subsidized Apartment Building Giving 40 Families the Boot

[hrmjustin]

Tessa Stuart



Residents of 941 Intervale Avenue in the Bronx were abruptly informed via letter on Tuesday that the building's owner, Aguila, Inc., will no longer be operating the apartment building as a city-subsidized homeless shelter, and they are being forced to leave.
The letter, just three sentences long, was scant on details. "Over the coming weeks and months, you will be provided transfer information for placement in a new shelter," it read. No specific timeline was given, but residents say case managers showed up that day to help them pack up.

In fact, other than a phone number to contact for any "questions or needs while you [sic] stay at the Bronx Neighborhood Annex continues" they were given no information at all.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/08/bronx_landlords_in_city-subsidized_apartment_building_giving_40_families_the_boot.php

[SummerSnow]

1. What a dang shame. DHS isnt innocent in all of this

This is their way of getting rid of these families, they are very corrupt

[hrmjustin]

2. You are right. That organization is totally corrupt and needs to be cleaned up.

I hope the courts slow this down to find places to find people places to live.

[SummerSnow]

3. I bet they will send these people to DHS' Next Step Program

This is when they remove homeless families out of apartment shelters, into one room where they have to share bathrooms with everyone and eating facilities.

[hrmjustin]

4. That sounds horrible and terrifying for these people.

[SummerSnow]

5. These Next Step programs are old NYC public schools. Families live in one room no matter how many

are in a family. The bathrooms are co-ed. i read an article where children were on line to go to the bathrooms with men on the same line. Just horrid

[hrmjustin]

6. We need to think of a better way to deal with this issue.