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The City Council is expected to file suit against the city to halt a controversial new homeless policy.

The policy, which was set to take effect Monday, would require homeless people seeking to shelter to prove they have nowhere else to go.

A new policy announced by the Department of Homeless Services will require shelter seekers to prove that they have nowhere else to stay.

The Bowery Residents' Committee has gotten the go-ahead from the state to open the largest part of its new shelter and detox facility.

The City Council is seeking to join a lawsuit aiming to shutter the controversial Chelsea shelter.

The council committee vote came Wednesday as BRC moved its first clients into the 328-bed residential facility at 127 W. 25th St.

The BRC residence at 127 W. 25th Street is set to welcome its first 24 residents on Wednesday to the 328-bed facility, as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called for a last-minute meeting to stop it.

The West 25th Street shelter has delayed plans to start accepting residents on Friday.

A judge ruled that Chelsea's BRC shelter can start moving residents into West 25th Street on July 15. 

The city will install an additional lamppost at the future site of the Bowery Residents Committee shelter at West 25th St.

The council speaker wrote Mayor Bloomberg requesting court action on the future BRC shelter on W. 25th Street.

Residents of 2720 Broadway believed they were trapped inside the burning building by locked emergency doors.

Opponents say a new law banning hotels in SRO buildings has opened the door to homeless shelters moving in.

The New York City Rescue Mission plans to add three floors to its Lafayette Street building.

Community leaders are anxious over a plan to place a $15 million homeless shelter on a largely residential strip.