De Blasio plans to hike wages for 50000 city workers

A controversial measure that may force New York’s homeless into shelters during cold weather has not been well received by the people it’s meant to protect, and has civil libertarians concerned about its possible overreach.

The appointment comes amid a massive review of the city’s homeless services in response to a swelling number of people living in shelters and on the street.

“When her hometown of New York City called on her to bring New Yorkers off the streets and into permanent housing, secure a bright future for our kids in foster care, and help us weave together fragmented mental health care providers into a comprehensive network, Herminia was ready to answer the call”, de Blasio said in a statement.

Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce today that the minimum wage of city workers will go up to $15 per hour. He said he wants state lawmakers to do the same for all workers.

The Post reported in September that city employees are so poorly paid that more than 300 full-timers are homeless.

While the numbers of homeless people in Bay Ridge are low compared to the rest of the city, the numbers are on the rise, Beckmann said. With her appointment, the de Blasio administration now has four deputy mayors born and raised in the city. The incoming deputy mayor and her new boss both recalled her struggles as child growing in the Bronx, her work in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis and her experience creating the shelter for Hurricane Katrina victims at the Houston Astrodome-but the doctor confessed the homelessness would probably resist any best efforts to end it.

“New York City has a commitment to keeping every one of its students safe regardless of the type of school they attend. I don’t have any comfortability with the security or the staff there”, The Guardian quoted a homeless New Yorker as saying.

If that’s the case, the order would largely reiterate outreach programs already in place in cities including New York City, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester.

The reaction from one of the city’s largest and most powerful unions was positive.

The so-called “cluster” shelter units housed 11,000 people in 260 buildings across the city and cost taxpayers $125 million per year in rent and social services costs.

50,000 workers will be effected. He emphasized that some homeless people preferred frigid cold streets over “disgusting” shelters.