I've been hearing about this for a while now but didn't think they were going to actually do it. I don't quite understand the rationale but apparently NYC is ordering churches to stop providing beds to homeless people. Here's the story I got from 1010wins.com:
NYC Churches Ordered Not to Shelter Homeless
NEW YORK (AP) -- City officials have ordered 22 New York churches to stop providing beds to homeless people.
With temperatures well below freezing early Saturday, the churches must obey a city rule requiring faith-based shelters to be open at least five days a week -- or not at all.
Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit that serves as a link with the city, says he had to tell the churches they no longer qualify.
He says hundreds of people now won't have a place to sleep.
The Department of Homeless Services says the city offers other shelters with the capacity to accept all those who have been sleeping in the churches.
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Is this for real?
What could be the rational for this?
Having the churches each take a night or two of the week seems to make a lot of sense to me.
I really have no idea. I've emailed some folks to try and find out but haven't figure it out yet. Sounds ridiculous though.
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