New York City to Double the Amount of Homeless Drop-In Centers Posted on January 11, 2016 by Dave Evans in WABC Monday, the New York City announced that it will spend $8-million to double its number of homeless drop-in centers. A homeless drop-in center on 30th Street close to 8th Avenue has no beds, but homeless New Yorkers can sleep a bit, eat there, take a shower, an ..Read More
Council to Assess Hunger Problem, City Efforts to Reduce It Posted on January 12, 2016 by Ryan Brady in Gotham Gazette The City Council’s Committee on General Welfare will hold an oversight hearing on hunger in New York City on Wednesday morning at City Hall. Council Member Stephen Levin, the chair of the general welfare committee, told Gotham Gazette he and his colleagues w ..Read More
With Favorable Start, de Blasio Claims ‘Momentum’ on Affordable Housing Posted on January 11, 2016 by Sally Goldenberg and Brendan Cheney in Politico New York The de Blasio administration announced on Monday that it has financed 40,204 below-market-rate apartments since taking office in 2014, a figure that puts it on pace to meet its 10-year goal of building or preserving 200,000 units by 2024. The total includes 13 ..Read More
How One Man’s Death Launched a Street-Homelessness Aid Project Posted on January 11, 2016 by Dan Goldberg in Politico New York On a cold December day in 2009, a 32-year old man was brought to Bellevue Hospital. By then, everyone recognized “Joe.” Joe (not his real name) was chronically homeless and had been to Bellevue’s emergency room 430 times during the prior three ye ..Read More
No Backspace: Fear and Loathing of Our Homeless Neighbors Posted on January 8, 2016 by Joel Berg in City Limits St. Joseph’s Church, in Prospect Heights, was full of angry Brooklynites. It was 2002, and a significant portion of the neighborhood was still industrial, including empty lots filled with barrels of chemical waste. But the outraged crowd was there to pro ..Read More
NYC Homeless: From the Hopeless to Those on Cusp of Jobs Posted on January 10, 2016 by Verena Dobnik in Associated Press As New York City grapples with a surge in homelessness, both the city and state governments have unveiled urgent measures to reach out to people living on the street and try to persuade them to move to shelters. The Associated Press interviewed several dozen h ..Read More
New York to Add 300 Shelter Beds for Homeless Young People Posted on January 8, 2016 by Nikita Stewart in The New York Times Mayor Bill de Blasio, in his latest attempt to address New York City’s homelessness crisis, unveiled a plan on Friday to add 300 shelter beds for older teenagers, an age group that advocates say is underserved and especially vulnerable to suicide and sex tra ..Read More
City Council Ramps Up Pressure on Cuomo Over Homeless Issue Posted on January 7, 2016 by Judith Silfrene in Kings County Politics The City Council in a resolution yesterday called on the state to match the City’s commitment to create thousands of supportive units of housing earmarked for the homeless. The resolution comes days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would take unilateral actio ..Read More
Keys, Not Cuffs Posted on January 7, 2016 by Brendan O'Connor in The Awl This week, as temperatures in New York City dipped below freezing for the first time this winter, Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to remember that there are homeless people—not only in New York City, but in cities around the state—and issued an apparently u ..Read More
