Why New York Mayor is Offering Cash to Landlords Who Rent to Homeless Families Posted on March 20, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Christian Science Monitor As New York City landlords sort through dozens of their Craigslist responses this week, they might have gotten a query from an unexpected source: Mayor Bill de Blasio. The mayor, who continues to make affordable housing a cornerstone for his administration, to ..Read More
Slumlords, Hellholes and a System’s Failures Posted on March 23, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times It isn’t just the dead-rat smell in the hallway, the holes in the walls, the locked exits and other rampant health and safety violations that make a new report on New York City’s homeless shelters so damning. What is appalling about the report, released ea ..Read More
Report: NYC Homeless Shelters See Record Number of Children in 2014 Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in NBC News 4 New York Mayor Bill de Blasio came into office vowing to attack the problem of homelessness as his predecessor had. Yet in the first year of his term homelessness rose by 13 percent according to a new report by the Coalition for the Homeless. News 4 Government Affairs ..Read More
Homeless Advocates’ Report Faults State and City Posted on March 20, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Capital New York The Coalition for the Homeless released a report Thursday that called for the state and city to do more to fight record levels of homelessness and laid out a series of recommendations it says could decrease homelessness by 85 percent by the end of 2019. There ..Read More
Homelessness in NYC at Epic Levels Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in AM New York The ranks of the city’s homeless have swollen to all-time highs, according to a new report, which praised Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to curtail the crisis, but called for more aggressive actions by both City Hall and Albany to stop it. ..Read More
There are More Children Sleeping in NYC Homeless Shelters Than Ever Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gothamist The city saw a record number of homeless people sleeping in municipal shelters last year, with one in 43 New York City children spending at least one night in a shelter, according to the Coalition for the Homeless’s annual State of the Homeless report. ..Read More
Report Finds Number of Homeless in New York Rising Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in NY1 A new report found more city residents have no place to call home. The Coalition for the Homeless released its annual State of the Homeless report. The group says Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to move 5,000 families per year from shelters into stable housi ..Read More
New York City Sees Record Number of Children in Homeless Shelters Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Reuters More than 25,000 children stayed at New York City homeless shelters on an average night in 2014, setting a new record, according to an advocacy group report released on Thursday. The city on average has more than 60,000 homeless people each night staying at sh ..Read More
Coalition for the Homeless Demands More From Cuomo Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Observer The Coalition for the Homeless today released a report indicating a exploding population of the indigent—and insisted the solution was Gov. Andrew Cuomo to commit to creating 30,000 new units of supportive housing and allocating more money for emergency rent ..Read More
