{"id":130372,"date":"2026-02-11T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130372\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:42:09","slug":"nyc-homeless-service-provider-breaks-down-code-blue-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130372\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC homeless service provider breaks down Code Blue response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a Code Blue, the city relaxes shelter intake rules and sends outreach teams into the streets to try and connect people with shelters or safe haven beds. However, over a dozen people have died outside since the city activated Code Blue for last month\u2019s winter storm.<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Fields, CEO of the Urban Resource Institute, a nonprofit that operates transitional housing for homeless families in the city, joined NY1 anchor Shannan Ferry on \u201cNews All Day\u201d for a wide-ranging conversation about the city\u2019s Code Blue operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be able to get ahead of a crisis,\u201d Fields said. \u201cWe want to do more awareness campaigns. When you look at the last administration, we just didn\u2019t tell New Yorkers or those impacted by homelessness or domestic violence that services exist before you reach a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a Code Blue, the city relaxes shelter intake rules and sends outreach teams into the streets to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2367,7473,9,24,2368,37641,56,2370,63,65,64,2369,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-130372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-live-at-noon","9":"tag-ctv","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-all-day","13":"tag-nicholas-loud","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-ny1-interviews","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-shannan-ferry","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}