News Summary

• New Yorkers without children who seek shelter from domestic violence are routinely being denied beds.
• Last year, more than half the callers to the city’s domestic violence help hotline were single people, but they made up only one-tenth of the people who were connected to beds in domestic violence shelters.
• The state pays providers on the assumption that most survivors are coming with kids.
• That means providers lose money when they put a single person in a room meant for two people — making it cost-prohibitive to accept too many single people.