Advocates Demand More Public Housing Apartments be Given to Homeless Families Posted on April 29, 2015 by Emma Whitford in Gothamist Homeless advocacy group Homes For Every New Yorker (HFENY) released a report yesterday urging Mayor de Blasio to set aside 2,500 New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) apartments for homeless families. The city currently sets aside a minimum of 750 NYCHA apar ..Read More
Advocates Continue Push for More Public Housing Units for the Homeless Posted on April 28, 2015 by Will Bredderman in New York Observer Politicians and activists kept up pressure on the de Blasio administration to increase its allocations of New York City Housing Authority apartments for the homeless in the face of a spiraling indigent crisis—and brandished a sheet of statistics showing that ..Read More
Cuomo Gives NYC One Week to Clean Up Homeless Shelters That Regularly Have Code Violations Posted on April 29, 2015 by Greg B. Smith in New York Daily News Gov. Cuomo’s administration on Tuesday gave the city a week to clean up homeless shelters perenially plagued by code violations, including a Queens hotel that’s hosting a vermin colony. In a letter obtained by the Daily News, Sharon Devine, acting commissi ..Read More
NYCHA Apartments for Homeless Drop Under Bill de Blasio Posted on April 28, 2015 by Jennifer Fermino in New York Daily News Homeless New Yorkers are getting a smaller share of Housing Authority apartments under Mayor de Blasio than under previous administrations, a report to be released Tuesday found. De Blasio, who is grappling with record-high numbers of homeless people needing s ..Read More
Today’s Read: NYC Spends Millions Per Year on Subpar Shelters for Homeless Families Posted on April 27, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone New York City’s historic homelessness crisis takes a tragic toll on the 60,000 men, women and children who bed down in shelters each night. It also comes at a significant financial cost to taxpayers: In the past five years alone, the City has spent $1.7 bill ..Read More
Signs of the Homeless Posted on April 27, 2015 by Thomas Cox in British Journal of Photography John Conn spent a summer photographing the men and women living on the streets of the Bronx, New York. Each had a sign, and a very personal story. Thomas Cox reports. “We all see the homeless – more or less – although we often do our best to look elsewhe ..Read More
NYC Spent $241M Over 5 Years to House Homeless Families in Shelters Filled With Rats, Lead Paint and Other Violations Posted on April 26, 2015 by Greg B. Smith in New York Daily News In the past five years, the city has spent $241 million housing homeless families in hellholes rife with a catalog of code violations from vermin to lead paint, a Daily News investigation has found. The money flowed to the operators of 24 fleabag hotels and ru ..Read More
Today’s Read: Pushing the Mayor to Do More for the Homeless Posted on April 24, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone Faced with a historic homelessness crisis, the City must make full use of every available tool to help the 60,000 men, women and children who are languishing in shelters – and to prevent more people from facing the trauma of homelessness. The New York City C ..Read More
New York’s Child Poverty Rate is Slipping, But Challenges Still Loom for City Kids Posted on April 23, 2015 by Sheila Anne Feeney in amNewYork The well-being of New York City’s children is improving, though the five borough’s 1.8 million kids still confront profound racial, geographic and economic disparities, according to a report. “For the first time since the recession took hold ..Read More