New York City on Track to Reduce Homelessness: Report Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC Homelessness has increased since Mayor de Blasio took office, but the tide is starting to turn, according to an annual report being released Thursday by the Coalition for the Homeless, the city’s leading advocacy group for the homeless. ..Read More
Record Number of New Yorkers Sleeping in Shelters Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in News 12 The Bronx An annual report shows that a record number of New Yorkers is sleeping in city shelters each night. The Coalition for the Homeless released the latest version of its report, which estimates that there at 60,000 people who rely on a shelter. That number is up f ..Read More
NYC Homeless Shelters See Record High Number of Children in 2014 Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News A record-high 42,000 kids slept in a city homeless shelter last year — including 1 in 17 of New York’s black children, a report to be released Thursday found. Overall, one in 43 city children were among the 116,000 people forced into shelters during the ye ..Read More
Homeless Mom in Queens Shelter Talks Challenges of Finding a Stable Place to Live With Daughter Posted on March 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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
