Activists fight for winter shelters
As nightly temperatures flirt with the freezing point, student activists for the New Haven’s homeless population have taken up the charge to keep the city’s overflow shelter open for the duration of the winter.
The Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project alone has pledged to raise $20,000 through on-campus initiatives, a significant increase from previous annual collections. Although the city decided last week to reopen the Cedar Street overflow shelter in mid-November, the emergency haven will not stay open past February unless local nonprofits and YHHAP find $100,000 to...
How is the city broke if they are paying 100 administrators in the schools more than $100K per year?
The city needs to deal with its unions and cut salaries across the board by 50%.