Posted on September 11, 2015 by Nikita Stewart in The New York Times The New York Times, By Nikita Stewart Millions of dollars in payments to dozens of nonprofits that shelter homeless people in New York are being held up by the city comptroller, who said the city was potentially placing shelter residents in unsafe conditions under existing contracts. Since Mayor Bill de Blasio and the comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, took office in January 2014, the comptroller’s office has rejected 33 contracts; in addition, the Homeless Services Department says it has withdrawn another 21 contracts because it believed it would need more documentation to meet the demands of the comptroller’s office for registration of the contracts, the requirement for payments.
