While Advocates Push for Action on Supportive Housing, Hevesi Says Deal Tied to 421-A, Other Negotiations Posted on June 14, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in City & State With just a few days left in the state legislative session, advocates and lawmakers are pressing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to reach a deal to follow through on a memorandum of understanding to fund supportive housing in New York City. A coaliti ..Read More
Faith Leaders Push State Leaders on Housing MOU Posted on June 14, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in State of Politics With the legislative session entering its final three days, a coalition of more than 130 faith-based leaders on Tuesday is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the top lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly to sign a memorandum of understanding backing 6,000 units o ..Read More
With Homeless Students on the Rise, Will New Education Law Help? Posted on June 13, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in U.S. News & World Report Homeless students are one of the fastest-growing subgroups of students in the U.S. And while they are much more likely to fall off track and eventually drop out of school, they are also notoriously difficult to identify and subsequently help. More than 1.3 mil ..Read More
Today’s Read: Fate of $2 Billion in State Housing Funds Unclear as Session Nears End Posted on June 13, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone There are only three days left in the State legislative session – but thousands of homeless New Yorkers are still waiting for Gov. Cuomo to follow through on a promise he made in his State of the State address 152 days ago. The State budget delivered on Apri ..Read More
State Leaders Should Keep Promise to Homeless Posted on June 11, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Democrat & Chronicle Every night, roughly 80,000 New Yorkers confront homelessness. Anyone who has walked through Washington Square Park knows exactly how pervasive this problem has become. The good news is we are very close to breaking the cycle of poverty for tens of thousands o ..Read More
Fate of $2 Billion in State Housing Funds Unclear as Session Nears End Posted on June 13, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gotham Gazette Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature allocated $2 billion to spend on 100,000 units of affordable and supportive housing in this year’s budget, which was agreed to on April 1. But they failed to include specifics — details of how that money woul ..Read More
Today’s Read: The School Where Nearly Half of Pupils Are Homeless Posted on June 6, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone Children are the often-hidden victims of New York City’s homelessness crisis, with more than 23,000 boys and girls bedding down in shelters each night. Research shows that, compared to their housed peers, homeless children are more likely to fall behind in s ..Read More
Where Nearly Half of Pupils Are Homeless, School Aims to Be Teacher, Therapist, Even Santa Posted on June 6, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times There are supposed to be 27 children in Harold Boyd IV’s second-grade classroom, but how many of them will be there on a given day is anyone’s guess. Since school began in September, five new students have arrived and eight children have left. Two transfer ..Read More
Report: Housing the Homeless Gets Cheaper Every Year Posted on May 31, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Time A “first-of-its-kind” report released on Tuesday in San Francisco found that the costs of housing homeless people drop by more than half over a few years, following an initial spike when they first find their way into supportive housing. City analysts trac ..Read More
