City Officials Try AGAIN to Evict Sandy Evacuees Residing in Hotels Posted on September 25, 2013 by GABRIELA SANDOVAL REQUENA The Bloomberg administration is trying yet again to evict hundreds of vulnerable Hurricane Sandy survivors from hotels, despite the City’s repeated failure to provide genuine help with housing. In the spring the City first attempted to evict hundreds of peop ..Read More
House Approves Harsh Cuts in Food Stamps Posted on September 25, 2013 by GABRIELA SANDOVAL REQUENA Last Thursday the House voted in favor of H.R. 3102, the Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act of 2013, a bill that, amongst other things, will decrease the budget for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stam ..Read More
City Seeks to End Hotel Program for Sandy Evacuees Posted on September 25, 2013 by Genevieve Belmaker in Epoch Times ..Read More
Hundreds of Storm Evacuees in Hotels Face Evictions Posted on September 25, 2013 by Mireya Navarro in New York Times ..Read More
Lhota’s Dangerous Proposal to Close the Shelter Door on Homeless People Posted on September 24, 2013 by PATRICK MARKEE Republican NYC mayoral candidate Joe Lhota proposed a dangerous plan to change the New York State Constitution in order to deny shelter to many homeless people. During a tele-town hall with supporters late last week, Lhota said he would seek to modify the New ..Read More
TODAY’S READ: More Inequality and Poverty in NYC Posted on September 19, 2013 by PATRICK MARKEE New Census Bureau data shows that, in 2012, the number of New Yorkers living in poverty rose. And the gap between rich and poor New Yorkers has continued to widen. The New York Times’ Sam Roberts reviewed the newly-released Census data. His article today ..Read More
Poverty Rate Is Up in New York City, and Income Gap Is Wide, Census Data Show Posted on September 19, 2013 by Sam Roberts in New York Times ..Read More
NY Times: Working New Yorkers Without Homes Posted on September 18, 2013 by PATRICK MARKEE The front page of today’s New York Times has a powerful article about the rising number of working New Yorkers who are homeless – the result of NYC’s worsening affordability crisis and failed Bloomberg policies. The New York Times article by Mireya N ..Read More
In New York, Having a Job, or 2, Doesn’t Mean Having a Home Posted on September 18, 2013 by Mireya Navarro in New York Times ..Read More