For a family shelter, 90 percent is incredibly high.
Catherine Street is one of the larger family shelters, providing temporary housing for more than 500 people.
The Red Cross provided housing for three days, and after that helped them find a family shelter.
Seven family shelters were approved by a 6-to-5 vote.
After 19 days in the center, they were sent to a family shelter in the Bronx.
The old commissary building is currently being used as a family homeless shelter.
The number of state-financed family shelters has more than doubled to 46 from 20 since 1985, she said.
The total number of family shelters is now 124.
Another 495 adults, mainly women in family shelters, were tested.
Mr. Koch also agreed to increase the size of each room in the new family shelters.