According to advocates, as many as 40 percent of families had to re-apply several times before finally being sheltered. The Department of Homeless Services is continuing to turn away families to whom they are supposed to offer emergency shelter.
VIDEO :: New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. releases a new audit finding that the Department of Homeless Services has been delaying and denying homeless families housing at a news conference on Thursday, October 15, 2009. more>