NYC must house homeless people with AIDS, judge rules FWD
Tom Boland (wgcp@earthlink.net)
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:08:54 -0800 (PST)
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FWD The Advocate - Thursday, November 18, 1999
Healthwatch
JUDGE RULES ON EMERGENCY HOUSING
A judge ruled Monday that New York City must provide immediate emergency
housing to homeless people with AIDS because of their poor health, The New
York Times reports. State supreme court justice Emily Jane Goodman ruled
that a 1997 city law requiring "medically appropriate housing" for people
with AIDS means that the city must provide shelter the day it is requested.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by Housing Works, the homeless
advocacy group, on behalf of two people with HIV.
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