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Posted: Saturday, 22 November 2008 12:26PM
NYC Churches Ordered Not to Shelter Homeless
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NEW YORK (AP) -- City officials have ordered 22 New York churches to stop providing beds to homeless people.
With temperatures well below freezing early Saturday, the churches must obey a city rule requiring faith-based shelters to be open at least five days a week -- or not at all.
Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit that serves as a link with the city, says he had to tell the churches they no longer qualify.
He says hundreds of people now won't have a place to sleep.
The Department of Homeless Services says the city offers other shelters with the capacity to accept all those who have been sleeping in the churches.
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