Pact Requires City to Shelter Homeless Men

New York Times | August 27, 1981

By Robin Herman

New York City must provide clean and safe shelter to every homeless man who seeks it, according to an agreement signed in State Supreme Court yesterday by city and state officials…

Shelter

The New York Times | March 21, 1981

When Ellen Baxter and Kim Hopper asked a bag lady at Grand Central to talk about her life, she answered: ”What difference does it make?” Her fatalism is understandable. Yet it could…

HELP IS URGED FOR 36,000 HOMELESS IN CITY’S STREETS

The New York Times | March 8, 1981
By David Bird

A yearlong study by the Community Service Society of New York has concluded that the problem of homeless people on the streets of the city has ”reached such…