NYC Restores Cut Funding To LGBT Homeless Youth Programs
Posted By Eric Ethington (Author) on January 6, 2011
New York City – The City Council has just announced that they have restored the previously-cut funds to LGBT Homeless Youth Programs after a national outcry went out over Mayor Bloomberg’s decision to reduce incoming money.
Via Towleroad:
Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn
“This morning City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn (pictured) and Finance Committee Chair Domenic M. Recchia Jr. announced that the Council and Administration have reached a budgetary agreement on the Fiscal Year 2011 financial plan, that fully restores the spending reductions to homeless youth programs proposed by Mayor Bloomberg in the November financial plan. This is wonderful news for the homeless youth of our City, particularly for homeless LGBT youth who would be disproportionately hurt by the proposed cuts. I am profoundly grateful to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the Council Assistant Majority Leader and Youth Services Committee Chair Lewis Fidler for their strong and dedicated leadership in seeking to have these cuts restored. Thousands of homeless youth have been protected by their compassionate leadership.”
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