Great time to be cutting services to the homeless. This just makes no sense. I know wer're in an economic nightmare. But what are people to do if services dry up? Below is the PR blurbage I just got from CAMBA and it really makes me MAD. Here's an excerpt and a link to CAMBA.

Governor Patterson has proposed to
eliminate the $5 million Homelessness Prevention Program (HPP), of
which $1.3 million of would be cut from CAMBA, a Brooklyn-based
nonprofit organization that has kept more than 30,000 families in their homes in Brooklyn since 1991.

Patterson’s cuts follow the New
York City’s Department of Homeless Services report that the city has
recorded the highest number of homeless people since 1982- 9,720.   At
a time when the government is trying hard to keep people in their homes
while maintaining if not providing jobs and when the need for
homelessness prevention is spiking, the New York State proposed budget
eliminates the Homelessness Prevention Program and leaves families
vulnerable with no place to turn.

These vital programs, run by 5
community based organizations, including CAMBA, are the only way that
the majority of families at risk of eviction can apply for the Family
Eviction Prevention Supplement (FEPS), the rental subsidy program that
replaced Jiggetts.  Last year the citywide HPP prevented 6,680 families
from losing their homes and
CAMBA’s HPP prevented more than 2,000 evictions.  Should these
programs be cut, CAMBA projects that 2,000 families will be affected
and the organization would lose 27 positions.  The projected citywide
job loss would be 90 positions.