New York Is Ripping Up the Playbook on How It Shelters the Homeless Posted on May 25, 2018 by Nina Agrawal in Los Angeles Times As Mayor Bill De Blasio headed toward reelection in 2017, he announced an ambitious plan to address one of New York City’s most intractable problems. Over the next five years, he said, the city would open 90 new homeless shelters. Gone would be the patch ..Read More
NYU Report Describes City in Housing Affordability Crisis Posted on May 24, 2018 by Sally Goldenberg in Politico In the high-octane world of New York City real estate, billionaires parking cash in exclusive Midtown condos and co-op boards interviewing dogs only reveal part of the picture. An NYU Furman Center report released Thursday portrays a city in crisis: Population ..Read More
Funding Cuts Threaten Grand Central Food Program’s Mobile Soup Kitchen Posted on May 22, 2018 by Juan De La Cruz in New York Nonprofit Media My daughter, like many nine-year-old kids, can be a bit dramatic. When she gets home from school she’ll often throw down her backpack and exclaim, “I’m starving!” I have to remind her that just outside our door and throughout the streets of the city, ..Read More
Where Brooklyn Tenants Plead the Case for Keeping Their Homes Posted on May 20, 2018 by N.R. Kleinfield in The New York Times Outside, shuddering in the cold, they waited. For regulars, the ones flung repeatedly into this quizzical place, they knew it was going to be a long, sour wait, for the line looped back and wiggled around the corner and touched the Lane Bryant store. The Lane ..Read More
The Eviction Machine Churning Through New York City Posted on May 20, 2018 by Kim Barker, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Grace Ashford, and Sarah Cohen in The New York Times When Neri Carranza went to see the apartment on West 109th Street in Manhattan, she folded money into the pocket of her blue jacket, just in case she liked the place. This would be the first apartment she had ever looked at, the first time she could make a hom ..Read More
Behind New York’s Housing Crisis: Weakened Laws and Fragmented Regulation Posted on May 20, 2018 by Kim Barker in The New York Times The assault began shortly after a new owner bought the building at 25 Grove Street in June 2015. Surveillance cameras arrived first, pointed at the doors to rent-regulated apartments. Then came the construction workers, who gutted empty units and sent a dust c ..Read More
Homeless Woman’s Court Fight Inspires 2 City Council Bills Posted on May 10, 2018 by Nikita Stewart in The New York Times Angela Castillo was tired of moving, and she was tired of the way she was being treated, like so many other people who enter New York City’s homeless shelter system. The shelter system can feel like a constant shuffle, and shelter residents often lash out at ..Read More