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NY takes action on 'three-quarter' homes
Tenants of the unregulated dwellings, seen as being between halfway houses and actual homes, often live in squalor
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Sun, Aug 9, 2015 · 09:50 PM
New York
THE Sleep Inn in Brooklyn is newly built, featuring rooms with tasteful flower pictures, mini-refrigerators and fresh towels. Many of its first patrons have never stayed in such a nice place.
They are hardly typical hotel guests. On public assistance or federal disability, many struggle with addiction to drugs or alcohol. Some are mentally ill; others, simply homeless. The city moved them to the hotel to relieve overcrowding at so-called three-quarter homes, as part of its response to an investigation by The New York Times published in May.
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