DHS

Of the nearly 16,000 vouchers the city has issued since 2014, just over 3,200 have been used.

The block, near a local elementary school, has recently filled with mattresses and other items. 

The operator of a shelter at 470 E. 161st St. has not been paid since the site opened in January.

The controversial shelter at 470 E. 161st St. is owed an estimated $1 million.

Upper Manhattan and South Bronx have the highest number of homeless shelters in the city, data shows.

The shelter opens Aug. 24 inside the former Clarion Hotel on Ditmars Boulevard.

The landlord at 60 Clarkson Ave. gave tenants 24 hours to move last month.

Comptroller Stringer said the Department of Homeless Services hadn't done enough to clear up violations.

Community members voiced their displeasure with the shelter at a meeting on Monday night.

The plan will make big and small repairs at city shelters, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.

Nearly a dozen mothers who live at the shelter inside the former Pan Am described terrible conditions.

Apartments should be leased to homeless families instead, they say, with the help of a rental subsidy.

The Department of Investigation said that conditions at city shelters need immediate action. 

Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein will hold a press conference on Jan. 23 at 12:30 p.m. calling for the ban.

The two West 95th Street buildings started as illegal hotels and later housed 400 homeless people.