article_snippet: A damning new report has uncovered a string of safety concerns and examples of poor hygiene at homeless shelters across New York City that in many cases have people living in conditions little better than what people living in conditions would find on the street.
article_snippet: The Department of Homeless Services spends $360 million a year housing nearly 12,000 homeless families with children in largely privately-run shelters described as decrepit and dangerous in A damning new report. '
article_snippet: At The Department of Homeless Services worst, The Department of Homeless Services is turning a blind eye to violations that threaten the lives of shelter residents,' A damning new report said, calling for repairs, stiffer inspections and new mechanisms to compel fixes.
article_snippet: New York City is legally obligated to provide shelter to all homeless people and has long grappled with how to house all homeless people.
article_snippet: The problem has grown more acute as the numbers of people seeking shelter rose from an average of about 39,000 a night in the start of 2010 to over 60,000 this past November, according to the most recent data the nonprofit Coalition for the Homeless has gathered from city agencies.
article_snippet: Conditions in some family homeless shelters were bleakly spotlighted in December 2013, when The New York Times profiled an 11-year-old girl who lived amid mice, rotting walls and communal bathrooms in a Brooklyn shelter that no longer houses children.
article_snippet: Investigators inspected 25 of the over 140 family shelters last spring and summer.
highlights_snippet: The Department of Homeless Services spends $360 million a year housing nearly 12,000 homeless families in largely privately-run shelters .
  
highlights_snippet: 'At The Department of Homeless Services worst, The Department of Homeless Services is turning a blind eye to violations that threaten the lives of shelter residents,' Report said .
  