City Council Progressive Caucus Backs Queens Assemblyman’s Statewide Plan to Subsidize Rent for ‘Vulnerable Residents’ Posted on January 26, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News A Queens assemblyman’s plan to crack down on the city homeless crisis has won the backing of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus. The caucus is supporting a plan by Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Queens) called the Home Stability Support program th ..Read More
CityViews: City’s Effort to Tally Homeless Youth Won’t Add Up Posted on January 23, 2017 by Nicole Edine in City Limits Two weeks from tonight, New York City will embark on its annual HOPE effort where volunteers will engage a small number of those living on the street. For four days afterward the city will conduct the Youth Count, a tally of homeless youth primarily conducted ..Read More
A Bold Plan to Prevent Homelessness Posted on January 23, 2017 by Nicole Edine in The New York Times It can’t be said enough that New York’s homelessness crisis is complicated. In a city where people are squeezed beyond their means by rising rents, just one of any number of additional stresses — a lost job, sickness, addiction, domestic violence — can ..Read More
Homeless Being Housed in Sub-Human and Unsafe Conditions in NYC, Report Shows Posted on January 19, 2017 by Nicole Edine in New York Daily News Homeless people are being housed in sub-human, unsafe conditions at hotels and other shelters, a new report by Albany pols found. The report, “Horrors in Homeless Housing,” found that well over half of the hotels in the city hosting the homeless have hundr ..Read More
NYC Homeless Clusters, Hotels Filled With Broken Toilets, Lead Paint, Mouse Poop, Report Finds Posted on January 19, 2017 by Nicole Edine in NBC News As of November 2016, 62,840 people were homeless in New York City, including 24,251 children, according to Coalition for the Homeless Hundreds of the city’s homeless are living in deplorable conditions that include peeling lead paint, malfunctioning toil ..Read More
Hairdressers Dole Out Blankets to Homeless New Yorkers Posted on January 19, 2017 by Nicole Edine in LI Herald Colette Morales, a hair stylist at Who Does Your Hair? in Bellmore, was walking down 5th Avenue in Manhattan on Jan. 9 when she saw a homeless man wearing lightweight pants curled up into a ball. This man planned to stay warm at a McDonald’s that night, when ..Read More
Report: De Blasio Beats Bloomberg On Homelessness But That’s Not Saying Much Posted on January 17, 2017 by Nicole Edine in Gothamist A few of Mayor de Blasio’s tactics for moving homeless families out of shelter and into permanent housing appear to be working, according to a new report [PDF] from the Coalition for the Homeless. But these gains aren’t making a dent in the overall ..Read More
Coalition for the Homeless Policy Brief Finds ‘Lost Decade’ Major Cause Underlying Historic Family Homelessness Posted on January 14, 2017 by Nicole Edine in Real Estate Rama Nearly 32,000 households were denied access to permanent housing assistance between FY 2005 and FY 2014 Report Outlines Steps State, City Must Take Immediately to Match the Scale of Crisis New York, NY – (RealEstateRama) — The Coalition for the Homeless re ..Read More
Report: Homeless New Yorkers Died In Record Numbers Last Year Posted on January 16, 2017 by Nicole Edine in Gothamist More homeless New Yorkers died during the last fiscal year than any other year since 2006, according to new data from the Department of Homeless Services. Advocates and city officials said that the increase is likely due, in part, to a concurrent increase in t ..Read More
