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LAS Condemns City for Failing to Provide Harmonia Shelter Residents Essential Meals

The Legal Aid Society condemned the City for failing to provide some Harmonia Shelter residents breakfast and lunch today in what continues to be fallout from the de Blasio Administration’s self-made crisis that arose when it capitulated to NIMBY fears by uprooting homeless New Yorkers in the midst of a pandemic, reports Patch.

Legal Aid received multiple phone calls this morning from concerned residents who had been receiving meals prepared by Services for the Underserved, the onsite provider who has been caring for this population, 80 percent of whom are disabled.

“The Administration’s callous lack of concern and humanity for our clients should alarm all New Yorkers, and we’re calling on City Hall to ensure that the residents of Harmonia Shelter and all homeless New Yorkers are able to move on with their lives,” said Josh Goldfein, a staff attorney with the Homeless Rights Project at The Legal Aid Society.