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Int 0844-2008

Requiring the Department of Homeless Services to maintain an intake center in Manhattan.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on General Welfareintroduced 2008-10-07

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2008-10-07Passed: 2009-12-31
Committee on General WelfareHuman Resources Administration/Department of Social Services, Department of Homeless Services, and charitable institutions.

How it compares

14% of similar bills passed

7 passed · 43 died

This bill: 449 days in committee

Similar bills: median 659 days · 67 days when passed

Sponsors (14)

Betsy Gotbaum

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2008-10-07 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2008-10-07 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2009-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2008-10-07 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Chapter 3 of Title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-316 to read as follows: § 21-316. Intake for Single Men. The department shall maintain a facility in Manhattan, which shall be open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to accept and process applications for shelter from single homeless men. Any individual who is in the process of applying for shelter as of ten o’clock in the evening on the day such individual sought shelter shall be provided temporary shelter placement for that night, at that facility. The facility shall have a greater capacity to shelter single homeless men than any other intake facility in the city. §2. This local law shall become effective sixty days after its enactment into law. O.P. LS#5474 09.30.08