Shelter Find provides the information about the closest available shelters for the Homeless.
When you see a homeless person what do you do? Look away? Try to avoid contact? Ignore?
Make a negative comment? All of these are the typical reactions of the typical person in NYC.
Now you can do something! With Shelter Find, a simple and straight forward application,
will allow you to provide help to this person in several ways. First you can just download the
application and capture any amount of information and automatically send this person’s actual
location to us where it can be monitored by the NYC Department of Homeless Services. This
alone will be important to notify the city that a person is in need. Second, if you actually want
to contact this homeless person, the Shelter Find application will highlight on the map where the
closest city Shelter is located. You can then direct the Homeless person to location, where this
person can find the help they need and deserve.
If you've ever felt like you can never do anything for these poor folks, now you can. It's your
way to help the city and help the homeless—this application is always available in New York
City and growing into other cities rapidly and always free. Shelter Find is an application
dedicated to locating and helping the homeless, by getting them into a shelter and promoting City
ability to get the help these folks need.
The application can capture the following information about the homeless person:
- Name
- Location (Latitude & Longitude)
- Dial 311