Homeless in New York City, an Unending Crisis Posted on May 7, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times The crisis of homelessness that ballooned under Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows no signs of deflating anytime soon under his successor, Bill de Blasio. Nearly 57,000 people were sleeping in city shelters at last count, 24,000 of them children. It was a disaster ..Read More
De Blasio Pushes for New Rent Stabilization Protections Posted on May 5, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gothamist With New York City’s rent stabilization laws set to expire in just over a month, Mayor de Blasio has proposed three reforms that he hopes will both stop the city’s pool of one-million rent stabilized apartments from shrinking, and slow rent increas ..Read More
Today’s Read: The Homeless Shelter Crisis Posted on May 4, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone With the shelter system bursting at the seams, the City and State governments need to immediately prioritize strategies that offer concrete help to the unprecedented number of New Yorkers without homes. A New York Daily News editorial reviewed the mixed result ..Read More
De Blasio’s Homeless Shelter Crisis Posted on May 4, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News For a mayor seeking to make “de Blasio” synonymous with salvation for the poor, no cause burns as fiercely as helping the city’s homeless — an astonishing 56,854 souls in the most recent count, including nearly 24,000 children. “We cannot let chi ..Read More
Advocates Demand More Public Housing Apartments be Given to Homeless Families Posted on April 29, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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
