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Year: 2011

Homeless New Yorker reunites with his daughter after 11 years thanks to Twitter

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in New York Daily News
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City’s Rent Regulation Battle Already Brewing

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in NY1News
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East Siders Help Homeless While Fighting their Shelter

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in DNAinfo
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At St. Brigid’s, a Life Lost, Though Not Unknown

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in New York Times
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Homeless Woman Found Dead On Lower East Side Sidewalk

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in 1010WINS
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Bloomberg’s Budget Plan Would Cut Vital Services for Homeless and Poor New Yorkers

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Patrick Markee
Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg released his preliminary budget plan for FY 2012, which begins July 1st, and as predicted it includes sharp cutbacks to vital services for homeless and low-income New Yorkers. As a host of news organizations reported (see here, her ..Read More

Behind Close Doors: The hidden health impacts of being behind on rent.

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in Children's HealthWatch
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Tell Nickelodeon to Apologize for Making Fun of Homeless People

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in Change.org
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Governor Cuomo’s proposed Advantage cut: an opportunity for reform

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Giselle Routhier
Three years after its inception, alarming new evidence shows how the Bloomberg administration’s flawed Advantage program is forcing rising numbers of formerly-homeless New York City children and families back into homelessness. Among the most troubling f ..Read More

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  • In June 2025, 102,850 people slept each night in NYC shelters.
  • 70 percent of those in shelters were members of homeless families, including 35,040 children

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