Middle-Income New Yorkers Struggling With Heavy Rent Burden, Study Says Posted on May 29, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in AMNewYork Nearly half of middle-income New Yorkers are struggling to pay their rent, the worst percentage among major U.S. cities, according to a study released Thursday. About 43% of moderate income New Yorkers are severely rent burdened, meaning they pay at least 50% ..Read More
Today’s Read: Relapse or Homelessness for Recovering Addicts Posted on June 1, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone A scathing New York Times investigation by Kim Barker details the reprehensible practice of exploiting people who are struggling with addiction and mental illness by placing them in overcrowded, unregulated “three-quarter houses.” Rather than providing ser ..Read More
Mom of 3 Gets Help From HomeBase Program to Avoid Homelessness Posted on May 30, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Keisha Wood is a working, single mother who, against all odds, avoided adding her three kids to the 20,000 children living in the city’s shelter system. Wood’s story shows a way for others to avoid being sucked into the abyss of homelessness. ..Read More
One in Five U.S. Schoolchildren are Living Below Federal Poverty Line Posted on May 28, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Washington Post More than one out of every five school-age children in the U.S. were living below the federal poverty line in 2013, according to new federal statistics released Thursday. That amounted to 10.9 million children — or 21 percent of the total — a six percent i ..Read More
New York City Task Force to Investigate ‘Three-Quarter’ Homes Posted on June 1, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday he had formed an emergency task force to investigate so-called three-quarter houses in New York City for potentially exploiting addicts and homeless people by taking kickbacks on Medicaid fees for drug treatment while forcin ..Read More
A Choice for Recovering Addicts: Relapse or Homelessness Posted on May 30, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times After a lifetime of abusing drugs, Horace Bush decided at age 62 that getting clean had become a matter of life or death. So Mr. Bush, a homeless man who still tucked in his T-shirts and ironed his jeans, moved to a flophouse in Brooklyn that was supposed to h ..Read More
The Cheapest Way to End Homelessness is Ridiculously Simple, According to the Largest-Ever US Study Posted on May 28, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Business Insider The Economic Roundtable just came out with the largest study on homelessness in American history. And it turns out the best way to combat homelessness is to provide homes. The study’s focus was on Santa Clara County, California, home to the extreme wealt ..Read More
Renters Getting Priced Out of America’s Big Cities Posted on May 28, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in CBS Renters across America’s biggest cities are finding it more expensive to keep a roof over their heads. From 2006 to 2013, the population of renters grew in all 11 of the largest U.S. cities, and the median rent grew faster than inflation in almost all of ..Read More
Mayor Renews Affordable-Housing Push in Meeting with Cuomo Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Associated Press New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to strengthen his city’s rent regulations and modify a real estate tax break to require more affordable housing, saying there is no excuse for inaction on issues ..Read More
