Today’s Video: New York’s Homeless Population at All-Time High of 60,000 Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone More than 60,000 New Yorkers are homeless. It’s important to keep in mind that behind the alarming statistics, there are thousands of individual men, women and children – each with his or her own identity and story. A recent BBC News segment features the ..Read More
NY’s Homeless Population Hits Record High as Poverty Explodes in America Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Epoch Times The homeless population in the nation’s largest city has exploded to an all-time high, forcing officials to provide shelter to desperate families in dilapidated tenements that have been identified by housing authorities as dangerous. ..Read More
To Human Traffickers, Runaway & Homeless Youth Are Walking Prey Posted on March 5, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Huffington Post It is hard to think of a more despicable crime than the buying and selling of other human beings, especially children. Yet we know that it is happening right here in America, every day. Each year, thousands of children are bought and sold for sex. That should ..Read More
Today’s Read: Rise to the Challenge and Fight Street Homelessness Posted on March 6, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone While an entire generation of New Yorkers has grown up in a city where mass homelessness, sadly, no longer seems shocking, it can be easy to forget that things don’t have to be this way and proven solutions are at hand. One of the most powerful and cost-effe ..Read More
America’s homeless children Posted on March 2, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Deutsche Welle The second-richest country in the world is failing to provide a roof over the heads of some 2.5 million children. In New York alone, about 20,000 people live on the street, in the shadows of skyscrapers. Dallas, Aliyah and their parents are staying in a shelte ..Read More
Today’s Read: Blueprint Now in Place, de Blasio Builds a Homeless Policy Posted on March 5, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone As one of the worst winters in memory continues to pummel the city, who among us can walk past the countless homeless men and women we see huddled against the bitter cold without wondering what is being done to help them? And with tens of thousands more men, ..Read More
Rise to the challenge and fight street homelessness Posted on March 3, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News When modern homelessness first emerged, our nation was shocked at the spectacle of men and women bedding down on the streets of large cities, and even small towns. For those of us who rallied to bring our homeless neighbors in out of the cold, New York City wa ..Read More
Blueprint Now in Place, de Blasio Builds a Homeless Policy Posted on March 2, 2015 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in City & State Mayor’s initiatives win praise, but have yet to stem tide of homelessness. ..Read More
NY mental health advocates say more housing is needed Posted on February 26, 2015 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in Daily Gazette Advocates say there’s a need for 35,000 more state-supported housing units — 30,000 in New York City and 5,000 upstate — citing the record number of 60,000 homeless individuals in the city, many with psychiatric disabilities. ..Read More
