Number of Homeless in City Hits Record High, Report Finds Posted on March 12, 2014 by admin in NY1News The number of people spending the night in city homeless shelters has soared to record heights, according to a new report. The Coalition for the Homeless says that from January 2013 to January 2014, the number of people sleeping in a city shelter rose seven p ..Read More
The woman looking out for New York’s 52,000 homeless Posted on March 10, 2014 by admin in Irish Central Each night, there are close to 52,000 homeless people in New York City’s shelter system – 22,000 of them children. That’s the highest level of homelessness in the city’s modern history. One of their greatest sources of both advocacy and support is the ..Read More
Hey buddy, can you spare a holding cell? Cops kick up peddler arrests in city subway stations Posted on March 7, 2014 by admin in New York Daily News As of March 2, the NYPD this year had nabbed 274 panhandlers and peddlers on city subways, officials said Thursday. That’s more than three times the amount arrested in the same period last year, where just 90 peddler arrests had been made. ..Read More
City Councilmembers and Advocates Urge the City to Provide Better Assistance to Homeless Families Posted on March 4, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena Last week, at the City Council General Welfare Committee’s first hearing of the year, advocates urged the new administration to improve the lives of thousands of homeless families and children in the city by implementing housing-based policies. The February ..Read More
