#shelters

FoST France-Europe

@fostfranceeurope.bsky.social

4 days ago

tbsky.app/profile/stan... #standingtogether #shelters

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Saffar

@ysjsaffar.bsky.social

5 days ago

“Just 37 of the 11,776 public bomb #shelters in all of #Israel are located in #Arab #towns, according to figures from the Abraham Initiatives #coexistence group.”

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Weird Sisters Publishing

@artdog.bsky.social

5 days ago

This square design centers on a photo of an adorable orange tabby kitten with big ears and green eyes sitting in a metal cage. The uncredited photographer caught it mid-meow. The words on either side of the photo say, “IT’S KITTEN SEASON! ADD ADVENTURE TO YOUR LIFE!” Photo courtesy of the City of Arlington, Texas Animal Services

It’s #KittenSeason at your local #AnimalShelter! Do you need a little #feline energy in your life? You might even get a discount on a #cat or #kitten. #Shelters also need #fosters!

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tamisar

@tamisar.bsky.social

6 days ago

Anne, you’ve chosen a word that leads me to get on a soapbox. As 100s of purebred dogs “show“ at Crufts in🇬🇧 I beg all those considering getting a pet🙏:

cats, dogs and others
desperate for loving homes:
Please Adopt, don’t shop
-tam💞
#haikufeels #haiku #adopt #shelters #cats #dogs #AdoptDon’tShop

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LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

Big Energy Bill? Usage and Costs Climb During New York’s Rough Winter ## Support local news today! Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. **Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news.** ### Make THE CITY Your Go-To For Local News Follow us on Google News ⭐️ Tianna Daniels was eight months pregnant when she moved into a Staten Island family shelter last March. She had just been fired from her job as chief engineer at a Pennsylvania hotel — on the same day her doctor submitted documents to her employer for her maternity leave, she said. “I weighed out every option — pros and cons — and I said, ‘Yea, I’m gonna go to New York and see what resources I can find,’” Daniels recalled. “I said, ‘This is where I was born, I got to go back.’” Her son, whom she calls Papa, is now nearly 10 months old. He is taking his first steps and starting to potty-train — and is always by Daniels’ side as she participates in various trainings to widen her job prospects. He watches Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood sometimes during his mother’s online Occupational Safety and Health Administration classes, and sat alongside her as she trained to become an addiction recovery coach. He’s even tagged along on her job interviews in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. “I haven’t had an hour from him since ever… I’ll pull up anywhere with this kid. This kid is always with me,” Daniels said. “I need child care.” But the 31-year-old mother sees no other option than to care for her baby on her own. The drop-in daycare center inside her shelter, for one, is still slowly moving through the city’s permitting process despite being furnished two years ago. Meanwhile, she can neither bypass the long waitlist for a child-care voucher from the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) nor qualify for one from the Human Resources Administration (HRA), which would require her to work. But without child care, Daniels can’t work. “The Catch-22 is so ridiculous,” she said. “How am I supposed to get out of the shelter?” For homeless parents, the lack of access to affordable, convenient child care is often a main barrier to transitioning into stable housing, according to a new report by WIN, New York City’s largest family shelter provider. Without it, parents struggle to work, find permanent housing, or attend crucial public benefits appointments. Nearly 15,000 New Yorkers under the age of five live in shelters. WIN surveyed 96 parents, including Daniels, across its 16 shelters citywide and found just 31% can access ACS or HRA child-care vouchers. More than half the surveyed parents said they rely on themselves for most of their child care, with 60% of them citing a lack of other child care options as the reason. The Department of Education offers some free and low-cost child care, which are competitive in some high-demand areas but chronically underfilled in others. The open spots often require long travel for families, and many parents simply do not know about them: Two-thirds of parents surveyed by WIN said they knew little or very little about available child care programs and resources. #### Latest Headlines ## Big Energy Bill? Usage and Costs Climb During New York’s Rough Winter March 5, 2026 ## How NYC Small Businesses Are Putting AI to Work for Them March 4, 2026March 4, 2026, 10:50 a.m. ## Council Fails Adams on Bus and Bike Lanes as Mamdani Streets Boss Promises More March 3, 2026March 4, 2026, 6:51 a.m. ## Hundreds of Squatters Took Over Vacant NYCHA Apartments, City Watchdog Finds March 3, 2026March 3, 2026, 3:50 p.m. “Programs meant to offer free or reduced cost child care to low-income families were not reaching parents in shelter,” the report writes, adding how traditional daycare hours — from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. — make it difficult for parents to hold shift- or gig-based jobs. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul, meanwhile, have made universal child care a core tenet of their agendas. In January, they announced $1.2 billion in state funding to expand 3-K seats in areas with unmet demands and to launch child care for 2,000 2-year-olds this fall and another 10,000 next fall. But Emmy Liss, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Child Care and Early Childhood Education, said at a City Council hearing on child care Monday that the administration does not currently anticipate being able to move families off child care voucher waitlists. State dollars, she added, would go toward covering the cost of existing vouchers. Employment remains the most straightforward path out of shelters for families, according to Katie Masi, who oversees workforce development at WIN. But parents often forgo work or job training to take care of their children, she said. “Most recently I had a client who wanted to participate in a training program to get into the maintenance field, and so they found a training program that would give them the skills and the tools to connect them with employment,” Masi recalled. “But they ended up having to drop out because they would have to pay out of pocket $70 a week for child care, and they couldn’t get the program approved by the city as a training program so they couldn’t get a voucher.” She added: “The biggest obstacle for our families for employment is not motivation — it is access to reliable child care that matches what they need.” ## **‘I Was Really Doing Everything’** Kellice Bobbitt knows what it’s like to lose a job over the lack of consistent child care. The native New Yorker lived in Colorado for five years before returning to the city last April. There, she worked nights at FedEx while her daughters’ father worked days. They’d hand off their toddler before each shift, making it hard for Bobbitt to be on time. “I ended up getting fired because some nights I was going in a little bit late,” said Bobbitt, 24, who is now separated from the father of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. Bobbitt’s case is not an anomaly. Among the parents surveyed by WIN, 78% reported job disruptions because they could not find or afford child care — with 55% saying they’d cut their own hours and 68% saying they have, like Bobbitt, lost jobs. Those are far higher rates compared to mothers living below 200% of the poverty line, according to a 2024 Robin Hood study referenced by the WIN report. The WIN report concludes: “Parents in shelter are more likely to have experienced child care related work disruptions than their low-income peers, suggesting that the lack of child care is itself a root cause of family homelessness.” Bobbitt, for one, said she started looking for jobs in the city even before she moved back — but struggled to land a job for months between a dearth of both job opportunities and reliable child care. ### We cover NYC on historic days and every day. Sign up for free morning headlines in your inbox. Sign up “I was really doing everything,” Bobbitt said. “I have to work around my family’s schedule with when they can watch the baby and when I can go out, and that was pretty hard.” It took her until November — four months after moving into a WIN shelter, and two months after her daughter became eligible for in-house daycare — for her to land a job working at Sweetgreen, she said. With child care covered by WIN from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Bobbit said she’s now working shifts from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. about three days a week. Other parents need child care to carve out time to attend appointments. Ilana, a 27-year-old mother who asked only to be identified by her first name, said she had been living in a car when she realized she was pregnant with her third child. Since entering a WIN shelter in September, she said, she has relied on the in-house daycare to look after her two-and-a-half-year-old, Jade, whenever she needs to attend appointments with her doctor or at HRA. She had been nervous about sending Jade to daycare, she said, since she has never done so with her older daughter, who now lives with her father. “But as my pregnancy progressed, it started becoming very hard to get to appointments on time and to do what I had to do to get housing — seeing that I had to get myself and my daughter ready and a lot of my appointments are early in the morning,” said Ilana, who hopes to enroll Jade in the city’s pre-K program next year. ## NYC housing coverage in your inbox The housing situation in the city is ever-changing, and we're on top it. Get CITY SCOOP for morning headlines on housing and more. Sign up “Being able to access free child care here in the building has tremendously changed our lives,” Ilana said. “I don’t really have any friends — let alone friends with kids her age — so she’s really not around children her age, and I feel like part of her growth is to get used to being around other kids her age and learning how to communicate and make friends.” With child care in place, Ilana plans to pursue her GED after giving birth and to find a more stable job than the babysitting work she’s done intermittently in the past. “I hope to be able to provide a life for them where they don’t end up going down the path I went on growing up or as a teen. I hope for them to just be educated,” Ilana said. “I know kids make mistakes, but I just hope that they learn compassion and stay on the track of success in life rather than, you know, failing or ending up like mom.” ## **’I’d Be Just Fine’** Daniels, for her part, is juggling caring for Papa with continuing her professional training and job search. She’s also grieving the fact that she’s lost custody of her three older daughters to their fathers and her estranged mother. “When I go to HRA, they always tell me, I cannot get a child care voucher unless I have an ACS case — which I don’t want, which I’m scared of,” Daniels said. “But if I had the daycare downstairs I would be just fine … I’ll be working on my mental and getting other stuff done, like taking classes and working on getting the housing situation better.” On a recent afternoon, she showed off photos of her daughters on her fridge and kitchen cupboards — as well as boxes of clothes ready for her daughters if they’re reunited one day. “Now that I’m so focused on Papa, all I think about is all the children,” Daniels said. Bobbitt, meanwhile, has found a supportive housing rental apartment in Harlem for her and her daughter through the Department of Homeless Services — and has been packing up to prepare for a move in the next few days. She anticipates paying a quarter of her monthly income toward rent, but still isn’t certain how she’ll access child care after leaving the WIN shelter and its in-house daycare. She recently began applying for an HRA child care voucher, she said, but pushed back the process between finding an apartment and moving. So far, she said, she’s found two daycares in the neighborhood that would each cost about $3,000 a month — an insurmountable sum on her Sweetgreen salary without a voucher. She’s also applied for a 3-K seat for the fall. But with months to go until then, she’s considering offering her grandmother a portion of her paycheck in exchange for child care while cutting back her hours to care for her daughter. “I just want her to feel comfortable in the environment she’s at,” Bobbitt said. “I just want her to be happy.” ### _Related_

For Homeless Parents, a Child Care ‘Catch-22’ Tianna Daniels was eight months pregnant when she moved into a Staten Island family shelter last March. She had just been fired from her job as chi...

#Child #care #Homeless #Shelters

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LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

Big Energy Bill? Usage and Costs Climb During New York’s Rough Winter ## Support local news today! Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. **Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news.** ### Make THE CITY Your Go-To For Local News Follow us on Google News ⭐️ Tianna Daniels was eight months pregnant when she moved into a Staten Island family shelter last March. She had just been fired from her job as chief engineer at a Pennsylvania hotel — on the same day her doctor submitted documents to her employer for her maternity leave, she said. “I weighed out every option — pros and cons — and I said, ‘Yea, I’m gonna go to New York and see what resources I can find,’” Daniels recalled. “I said, ‘This is where I was born, I got to go back.’” Her son, whom she calls Papa, is now nearly 10 months old. He is taking his first steps and starting to potty-train — and is always by Daniels’ side as she participates in various trainings to widen her job prospects. He watches Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood sometimes during his mother’s online Occupational Safety and Health Administration classes, and sat alongside her as she trained to become an addiction recovery coach. He’s even tagged along on her job interviews in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. “I haven’t had an hour from him since ever… I’ll pull up anywhere with this kid. This kid is always with me,” Daniels said. “I need child care.” But the 31-year-old mother sees no other option than to care for her baby on her own. The drop-in daycare center inside her shelter, for one, is still slowly moving through the city’s permitting process despite being furnished two years ago. Meanwhile, she can neither bypass the long waitlist for a child-care voucher from the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) nor qualify for one from the Human Resources Administration (HRA), which would require her to work. But without child care, Daniels can’t work. “The Catch-22 is so ridiculous,” she said. “How am I supposed to get out of the shelter?” For homeless parents, the lack of access to affordable, convenient child care is often a main barrier to transitioning into stable housing, according to a new report by WIN, New York City’s largest family shelter provider. Without it, parents struggle to work, find permanent housing, or attend crucial public benefits appointments. Nearly 15,000 New Yorkers under the age of five live in shelters. WIN surveyed 96 parents, including Daniels, across its 16 shelters citywide and found just 31% can access ACS or HRA child-care vouchers. More than half the surveyed parents said they rely on themselves for most of their child care, with 60% of them citing a lack of other child care options as the reason. The Department of Education offers some free and low-cost child care, which are competitive in some high-demand areas but chronically underfilled in others. The open spots often require long travel for families, and many parents simply do not know about them: Two-thirds of parents surveyed by WIN said they knew little or very little about available child care programs and resources. #### Latest Headlines ## Big Energy Bill? Usage and Costs Climb During New York’s Rough Winter March 5, 2026 ## How NYC Small Businesses Are Putting AI to Work for Them March 4, 2026March 4, 2026, 10:50 a.m. ## Council Fails Adams on Bus and Bike Lanes as Mamdani Streets Boss Promises More March 3, 2026March 4, 2026, 6:51 a.m. ## Hundreds of Squatters Took Over Vacant NYCHA Apartments, City Watchdog Finds March 3, 2026March 3, 2026, 3:50 p.m. “Programs meant to offer free or reduced cost child care to low-income families were not reaching parents in shelter,” the report writes, adding how traditional daycare hours — from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. — make it difficult for parents to hold shift- or gig-based jobs. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul, meanwhile, have made universal child care a core tenet of their agendas. In January, they announced $1.2 billion in state funding to expand 3-K seats in areas with unmet demands and to launch child care for 2,000 2-year-olds this fall and another 10,000 next fall. But Emmy Liss, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Child Care and Early Childhood Education, said at a City Council hearing on child care Monday that the administration does not currently anticipate being able to move families off child care voucher waitlists. State dollars, she added, would go toward covering the cost of existing vouchers. Employment remains the most straightforward path out of shelters for families, according to Katie Masi, who oversees workforce development at WIN. But parents often forgo work or job training to take care of their children, she said. “Most recently I had a client who wanted to participate in a training program to get into the maintenance field, and so they found a training program that would give them the skills and the tools to connect them with employment,” Masi recalled. “But they ended up having to drop out because they would have to pay out of pocket $70 a week for child care, and they couldn’t get the program approved by the city as a training program so they couldn’t get a voucher.” She added: “The biggest obstacle for our families for employment is not motivation — it is access to reliable child care that matches what they need.” ## **‘I Was Really Doing Everything’** Kellice Bobbitt knows what it’s like to lose a job over the lack of consistent child care. The native New Yorker lived in Colorado for five years before returning to the city last April. There, she worked nights at FedEx while her daughters’ father worked days. They’d hand off their toddler before each shift, making it hard for Bobbitt to be on time. “I ended up getting fired because some nights I was going in a little bit late,” said Bobbitt, 24, who is now separated from the father of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. Bobbitt’s case is not an anomaly. Among the parents surveyed by WIN, 78% reported job disruptions because they could not find or afford child care — with 55% saying they’d cut their own hours and 68% saying they have, like Bobbitt, lost jobs. Those are far higher rates compared to mothers living below 200% of the poverty line, according to a 2024 Robin Hood study referenced by the WIN report. The WIN report concludes: “Parents in shelter are more likely to have experienced child care related work disruptions than their low-income peers, suggesting that the lack of child care is itself a root cause of family homelessness.” Bobbitt, for one, said she started looking for jobs in the city even before she moved back — but struggled to land a job for months between a dearth of both job opportunities and reliable child care. ### We cover NYC on historic days and every day. Sign up for free morning headlines in your inbox. Sign up “I was really doing everything,” Bobbitt said. “I have to work around my family’s schedule with when they can watch the baby and when I can go out, and that was pretty hard.” It took her until November — four months after moving into a WIN shelter, and two months after her daughter became eligible for in-house daycare — for her to land a job working at Sweetgreen, she said. With child care covered by WIN from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Bobbit said she’s now working shifts from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. about three days a week. Other parents need child care to carve out time to attend appointments. Ilana, a 27-year-old mother who asked only to be identified by her first name, said she had been living in a car when she realized she was pregnant with her third child. Since entering a WIN shelter in September, she said, she has relied on the in-house daycare to look after her two-and-a-half-year-old, Jade, whenever she needs to attend appointments with her doctor or at HRA. She had been nervous about sending Jade to daycare, she said, since she has never done so with her older daughter, who now lives with her father. “But as my pregnancy progressed, it started becoming very hard to get to appointments on time and to do what I had to do to get housing — seeing that I had to get myself and my daughter ready and a lot of my appointments are early in the morning,” said Ilana, who hopes to enroll Jade in the city’s pre-K program next year. ## NYC housing coverage in your inbox The housing situation in the city is ever-changing, and we're on top it. Get CITY SCOOP for morning headlines on housing and more. Sign up “Being able to access free child care here in the building has tremendously changed our lives,” Ilana said. “I don’t really have any friends — let alone friends with kids her age — so she’s really not around children her age, and I feel like part of her growth is to get used to being around other kids her age and learning how to communicate and make friends.” With child care in place, Ilana plans to pursue her GED after giving birth and to find a more stable job than the babysitting work she’s done intermittently in the past. “I hope to be able to provide a life for them where they don’t end up going down the path I went on growing up or as a teen. I hope for them to just be educated,” Ilana said. “I know kids make mistakes, but I just hope that they learn compassion and stay on the track of success in life rather than, you know, failing or ending up like mom.” ## **’I’d Be Just Fine’** Daniels, for her part, is juggling caring for Papa with continuing her professional training and job search. She’s also grieving the fact that she’s lost custody of her three older daughters to their fathers and her estranged mother. “When I go to HRA, they always tell me, I cannot get a child care voucher unless I have an ACS case — which I don’t want, which I’m scared of,” Daniels said. “But if I had the daycare downstairs I would be just fine … I’ll be working on my mental and getting other stuff done, like taking classes and working on getting the housing situation better.” On a recent afternoon, she showed off photos of her daughters on her fridge and kitchen cupboards — as well as boxes of clothes ready for her daughters if they’re reunited one day. “Now that I’m so focused on Papa, all I think about is all the children,” Daniels said. Bobbitt, meanwhile, has found a supportive housing rental apartment in Harlem for her and her daughter through the Department of Homeless Services — and has been packing up to prepare for a move in the next few days. She anticipates paying a quarter of her monthly income toward rent, but still isn’t certain how she’ll access child care after leaving the WIN shelter and its in-house daycare. She recently began applying for an HRA child care voucher, she said, but pushed back the process between finding an apartment and moving. So far, she said, she’s found two daycares in the neighborhood that would each cost about $3,000 a month — an insurmountable sum on her Sweetgreen salary without a voucher. She’s also applied for a 3-K seat for the fall. But with months to go until then, she’s considering offering her grandmother a portion of her paycheck in exchange for child care while cutting back her hours to care for her daughter. “I just want her to feel comfortable in the environment she’s at,” Bobbitt said. “I just want her to be happy.” ### _Related_

For Homeless Parents, a Child Care ‘Catch-22’ Tianna Daniels was eight months pregnant when she moved into a Staten Island family shelter last March. She had just been fired from her job as chi...

#Child #care #Homeless #Shelters

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Observe Lebanon

@observelebanon.bsky.social

1 week ago

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The Lebanese Council of Ministers has announced the creation of shelters in Beirut, the South Governorate, and Hasbaya to support communities during local crises, addressing their immediate needs.

#Lebanon #Shelters #CrisisResponse

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راديو وياك - Radio wayak

@radiowayak.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

#Sirens sound across the occupied territories as an #Iranian #missile attack and heavy #drones head toward central #Tel #Aviv, with #settlers rushing again to #shelters from angry #Iran strikes.

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National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health

@ncceh.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Missed last week's webinar? The recording for the session is now available ➡️ ncceh.ca/events/upcom... #airquality #shelters

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High North News

@highnorthnews.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Adds bombing target to the city: Cheaper than expanding at Reitan Bodø (High North News): The new air defense center for NATO once again places Bodø in a geopolitical hotspot. Nevertheless, an almost 30-year-old decision exempts new buildings from having to build sh...

NATO's new Combined Air Operations Center once again makes Bodø a security policy bull's eye.

#Bodø #arctic #nato #security #bombtarget #shelters @forsvarsdep.bsky.social #CAOC
en.highnorthnews.com/politics/new...

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NewYork

@newyork.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

2 weeks ago

Bellevue Hospital a De Facto Homeless Shelter, as Winter Storms Test City Outreach As an historic blizzard pummeled New York City Monday, about four dozen people dozed off in chairs in a lobby of B...

#Health #Homeless #Homeless #Shelters #Homelessness #Weather […]

[Original post on thecity.nyc]

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NewYork

@newyork.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

2 weeks ago

Bellevue Hospital a De Facto Homeless Shelter, as Winter Storms Test City Outreach As an historic blizzard pummeled New York City Monday, about four dozen people dozed off in chairs in a lobby of B...

#Health #Homeless #Homeless #Shelters #Homelessness #Weather […]

[Original post on thecity.nyc]

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Nasrene MacDonald

@nasrene41.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

#Germany made it illegal to kill healthy animals in #shelters. The result? A nation that refuses to give up on any life.
#EndBSL #NoKillSheltersUSA

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FeLV Catio

@felvcatio.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

pls help. The attached is victim of a scam we think. it is a note in the back of a video a scammer uses to request donations. YouTube doesn’t act on reports sadly. The victims though might be able to claim their content & dispute the donations. many videos have kennel cards attached or pinwalls like this in the back. those are most likely from the real shelters / rescues and if we inform them their content was stolen they can act on that! Pls someone with skills check background for info? https://youtube.com/shorts/X2UnvoLfRMU?si=3ULjPZtpk-M613A5 is a channel on YT obviously scamming ppl into donating but all their content is stolen and edited w AI. YouTube could easily shut them down coz the videos are pirate content & AI edits & they have ZERO adoptable animals listed! But YT obviously doesn’t care anymore if things are legit! you can all comment in the videos comments to shit this channel down and report the channel so YT shuts places like this down!!!

HAAAALP pls - a scammer on YT asks ppl 2 donate but all their cat vidz R stolen. I tried stills 2 read bckgrnd kennel sheets & notes like attached (that is NOT the scam but most likely a victim) Scammer is House of Paws- usees real #shelters / #rescue #cats 😵‍💫 #IsThisU #AdoptDontShop
#Hedgewatch 😢

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Maz 🇨🇦

@atheistactor.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Toronto wants to allow micro shelters — just not on city land | CBC News A year after Toronto staff sent a cease and desist to a man who built several tiny mobile homes for those experiencing homelessness, the city is moving closer to embracing micro shelters with its own ...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“It's completely unreasonable to rent land when the city has vacant land that they can use.”

#Toronto #Shelters #Houseless

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bricehammack.bsky.social

@bricehammack.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Mamdani brings back homeless encampment sweeps—turning on promise after backlash over cold weather deaths.

#Mamdani
#HomelessEncampments
#Shelters
#NoCamping

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Better Shelter

@bettershelter.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

In many parts of the world, #displaced families are observing #Ramadan differently while living in temporary #shelters. Yet they keep the spirit of Ramadan, even in difficult times.
A small table set for iftar. Meals shared with neighbours. Shoes lined up by the door before prayer.🌙

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Vancouver Island Mental Health Society

@vimhs.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Parksville has no shelter for the homeless again this winter Advocates are callings on elected leaders in Parksville and the Oceanside area to open a shelter this winter and start planning for 2027

"Several communities are opening their extreme #coldweather #shelters, but not in #Parksville or even in the #Oceanside region ...and some say political will is getting in the way of keeping vulnerable residents warm." #VancouverIsland #BC #BritishColumbia cheknews.ca/parksville-h...

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Gina

@cissybgood67.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight

This 14-Year-Old Is Using #Origami to Imagine Emergency #Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

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Services for the UnderServed (S:US)

@sus-org.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

New residents are settling into Marcus Garvey, our affordable/supportive #housing in Brooklyn. This model provides stable homes + on-site services, helping 55 individuals/families move from #shelters into safe, welcoming homes. Thank you to our #volunteers for stocking units.

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Services for the UnderServed (S:US)

@sus-org.bsky.social

1 month ago

Inside one organization's efforts to get the mentally ill and homeless off of NYC streets YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY

#NYC is entering a prolonged #CodeBlue period, increasing risks for people living on the streets and in the subways. Our SOS teams are out every day helping individuals connect to safe #shelters and #supportivehousing.

📹 @abc7ny.bsky.social
https://youtu.be/g2Z3dDApUH4?si=HLmfFeHLZrZ4y8Is

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Darren Smith Photography

@darrensmith.org.uk

1 month ago

DSP

A #photograph of one of the #coastal #shelters in #minnisbay #visitKent in the #southeast of #England. These #buildings offer #protection from the #weather to those walking along the #coast #landscapephotography #beachlife #travelphotos #landscapelovers #blackandwhitephotography

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Services for the UnderServed (S:US)

@sus-org.bsky.social

1 month ago

How Unsheltered New Yorkers Face Down the Cold: ‘It’s Survive or Die’ Some unsheltered New Yorkers say they prefer the freedom of the streets. Others say they have not been asked in.

Unsheltered New Yorkers face life‑threatening risks during #extremecold, as many avoid #shelters due to safety concerns & limited options. #NYC must invest in dignified, person‑centered #housingsolutions to save lives.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/cold-weather-...

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Nandana

@nandanainthegarden.bsky.social

1 month ago

Beyond Local: Alberta institute of wildlife conservation breaks annual intake record Read the full story and comment on TheAlbertan.com

Important, please note #wildlife need our responders and safe #shelters

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Ethiack

@kcaihte.bsky.social

1 month ago

Critics push Mamdani, NYC to do more to force homeless into shelters after 10 die in deep freeze “I don’t care what your ideology is,” former city Comptroller Scott Stringer argued. “When it’s 7 degrees, you get everyone in a safe place.”

Critics push Mamdani, NYC to do more to force homeless into shelters after 10 die in deep freeze #mamdani #zohrankmamdani #newyork #homeless #deaths #lefties #nyc #freeze #shelters #unitedstates #news #badpolitician #manhattan #queens #Brooklyn #ice #temperature #cold
nypost.com/2026/01/28/u...

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Wondering still

@donotassume.bsky.social

1 month ago

The sheer amount of #shelters provided by the American #RedCross is 🤯💥 due to Winter Storm Fern 🌬️.

www.redcross.org/get-help/dis...

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@goadvry1glow.bsky.social

1 month ago

#EmergencyServices , #Safety #Shelters #Protection #Surgeries #ChronicPains #HelpaffectMultipleLives #Share #BreakingNews #TransLivesMatter #SurvivorofAbusesLivesMatter #DisabledLivesMatter

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Vancouver Island Mental Health Society

@vimhs.bsky.social

1 month ago

City of Nanaimo explores ways to crush regulatory barriers to building social housing - Nanaimo News Bulletin City planners propose pre-zoning areas to allow greater building heights and densities

" #Affordablehousing, according to city [of #Nanaimo] documents, are housing options that are subsidized to bring them below the cost, to the residents, of private market housing and include #socialhousing, #supportivehousing and #shelters" #VancouverIsland #BC nanaimobulletin.com/2026/01/29/c...

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The Vegan Search Engine

@vegansearchengine.bsky.social

1 month ago

NYC shelters seeking ‘blizzard buddies’ for their dogs ahead of snowstorm — over 1,500 people responded The ACC has been overwhelmed with requests to help — receiving over 1,500 emails in less than 24 hours from pet lovers.

NYC’s shelter was flooded with 1500+ offers to foster dogs for the snowstorm! 🐶❄️ 😊They can’t reply to all TY 🙏

Long and short-term fosters always needed to help pups out of crowded kennels. 🐾 💚 ACC is overcrowded w 300 dogs (200 capacity)

#NYC #Storm #Shelters #Foster

nypost.com/2026/01/23/u...

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Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁

@cathycrowe.bsky.social

1 month ago

A screen shot of an email to council calling for an additional and new warming centre.

Screen shot of a newspaper article with an image of a tent and signs of outdoor living.

January 24 I wrote #Toronto City Council. The current effort of cramming #homeless people into existing overcrowded #shelters, in some cases only offering a chair for overnight would not be considered acceptable in a refugee camp.

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