Jan 7, 2016
News
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Photo by: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today a substantially increased effort to ensure the City’s ability to identify and fix problems in the City’s homeless shelters. Shelter Repair Squad 2.0, or SRS2.0, began on New Year’s Day and expands the existing Department of Housing Preservation and Development inspections of DHS shelters and new repairs. SRS2.0 follows other homeless restructuring steps: 1) ending use of cluster apartments for shelter over the next three years, 2) re-iterating requirement to keep shelters open during the day for residents, and 3) announcing HOME-STAT, the nation’s most comprehensive street homelessness [Read More]
Jun 25, 2015
News, United Nations
34 floor, Bed bug, bed bug infestation, Bedbug, blood meal, blood of people, buses, CDC, Cimex lectularius, cruise ships, EuropaNewswire, feed, health hazard, hotels, rooming houses, shelters, trains, UN, UN Bed Bugs, united nations
“Boss! We have Cimex lectularius again” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Bed Bugs FAQs What are bed bugs? Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are small, flat, parasitic insects that feed solely on the blood of people and animals while they sleep. Bed bugs are reddish-brown in color, wingless, range from 1mm to 7mm (roughly the size of Lincoln’s head on a penny), and can live several months without a blood meal. Where are bed bugs found? Bed bugs are found across the globe from North and South America, to Africa, Asia and Europe. Although the presence of bed bugs has traditionally [Read More]
