Homeless Mom in Queens Shelter Talks Challenges of Finding a Stable Place to Live With Daughter Posted on March 19, 2015 by Caitlin Nolan and Erin Durkin in New York Daily News Jessica Pendergrass huddled in the wind with her 12-year-old daughter, her eyes red from crying as they waited for a place to spend the night. “I’m homeless, me and my daughter,” said Pendergass – like 116,000 other New Yorkers including 42,000 chi ..Read More
Today’s Read: Why the City Should Convert Cluster Site Shelters Back to Apartments Posted on March 17, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone Following the release last week of the Department of Investigation’s disturbing report on squalid conditions in the City’s family shelter system, many New Yorkers are wondering what can be done so that homeless families get the decent shelter to which they ..Read More
How New York’s Massive Homeless Population Endured Winter 2015 Posted on March 17, 2015 by John Surico in Vice Several homeless men tell me subway cars would regularly be filled at night with those temporarily escaping blizzard after blizzard—at least until the morning commute. “It’s a major resource for us, so without it, I don’t know what to do, ..Read More
Convert Homeless Shelters Back to Apartments, Advocates Say Posted on March 17, 2015 by Rosa Goldensohn in DNAinfo Homeless shelters in crumbling apartment buildings should be turned into permanent housing because local nonprofits can’t be trusted to run them, advocates said. “We have long said that the city should phase out the program and revert those buildings t ..Read More
City’s Homeless Families Live Amongst Rodents, Roaches and Mold Posted on March 14, 2015 by Narmeen Choudhury in PIX11 A 54-page report put together by New York City’s Department of Investigation highlights deplorable living conditions in some of our city’s shelters. The DOI sent its own team of investigators out to 25 different shelters over the course of a year and their ..Read More
Today’s Read: Review of NYC Family Shelter System Finds Hundreds of Violations Posted on March 16, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone A report released on Thursday by the NYC Department of Investigation finds that conditions in the City’s family shelter system are truly deplorable and in need of immediate attention. The yearlong review, conducted at the request of Mayor Bill de Blasio, unc ..Read More
Probe Faults City Homeless System as Inherited Problems Multiply Posted on March 12, 2015 by Sally Goldenberg and Brendan Cheney in Capital New York New York City’s homeless population is not only at record levels, but conditions in city-run, taxpayer-funded shelters are filthy, unhealthy and dangerous, according to a report released this morning by the city Department of Investigation. ..Read More
Review of New York Shelter System Finds Hundreds of Violations Posted on March 12, 2015 by Winnie Hu in The New York Times The New York City homeless shelter system that was supposed to provide a refuge for families with children instead forced some of them to live in squalid conditions that included a dead rat in an apartment, garbage strewn in hallways and stairways, and a puddl ..Read More
Dept. of Homeless Services Shelters Families in Vermin-Infested Sites Plagued by Health, Safety Code Violations: Report Posted on March 12, 2015 by Greg B. Smith in New York Daily News The city is sending homeless families to vermin-infested shelters plagued by fire, health and safety code violations for which taxpayers are paying crazy rent that’s sometimes triple the going rate, a Department of Investigation probe has found. The report f ..Read More