The agency that I am working with is Bronx Neighborhood Aguila INC. Aguila is a shelter in New York City. Aguila was funded in the 90’s mainly for the rapidly increase of homeless individuals and families. Aguila is a not for profit organization and they are funded by City, State and federal tax levy dollars. Aguila INC mission is to “Provide transitional housing for homeless families throughout the New York Metropolitan Area and seeks to end the vicious cycle of generational homelessness.” Also, Aguila INC creates a cohesive and home like environment to ease the situation of these families in needs. Lastly, Aguila INC provides Case Management, Housing Resources, Educational Resources and other types of resources that will guide family to…show more content… Also, families need to go through PATH (Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing) for a housing investigation. PATH is the agency that assists with intake and the investigation of the reason why families are become homeless. Also, PATH find individuals or families as eligible or ineligible for further assistance in the shelter system. There are also special cases such as Domestic Violence Victims that are been mainly helped by Safe Horizon. Apparently, Domestic Violence are not supposed to arrive into shelters that are for family due to the lack of security and specific resources that victims of domestic violence need. However, shelter system is overcrowded close to 60,000 people are living in the shelter according to the web side Coalition of the Homeless that was founded in 1981. Coalition of the Homeless is a non profit organization that assist families with resources towards food, health, education, employment and others to ease the road into the difficult moment that it is to become homeless. Conclusively, Aguila INC can not work on its own to assist families. It is a teamwork of different agencies that work in conjunction to fight against this social issue that it is rapidly increasing and it is affecting families of all social…show more content… However, there was no recognized legal right to shelter until it was secured for single men in 1979 by the Callahan v. Carey lawsuit, a class action lawsuit brought by the Coalition for the Homeless against New York City and New York State. Callahan was settled as a consent decree in 1981, which established the right to shelter for all homeless men in New York City, as well as the minimum standards the City and State must maintain in adult shelters, including basic health and safety standards. The right to shelter was extended to homeless single women in the 1982 Eldredge v. Koch lawsuit (also brought by the Coalition for the Homeless), which was ultimately consolidated in the Callahan