There’s No Eviction Moratorium on NYC Storage Units. Now the Contents of Hundreds are Being Auctioned Off Posted on October 26, 2020 by Rosa Goldensohn in The City New Yorkers’ belongings stowed away in hundreds of self-storage units are slated to be auctioned off in the coming weeks, with struggling customers left unprotected, even during the pandemic. People in dire financial straits and unable to pay their storage b ..Read More
NYC will install Wi-Fi in homeless shelters following Daily News report on students’ internet issues Posted on October 26, 2020 by Noah Goldberg, Michael Elsen-Rooney and Shant Shahrigian in New York Daily News The city plans to install Wi-Fi in city-run homeless shelters after the Daily News highlighted issues homeless students are having accessing the internet to attend their remote learning classes. Mayor de Blasio made the announcement Monday, following a News fr ..Read More
City ‘Failing’ to Protect Homeless in Shelters and Hotels During Pandemic, Lawsuit Demanding Solo Rooms Alleges Posted on October 23, 2020 by Claudia Irizarry Aponte in The City Homeless men and women were left to languish in packed hotel rooms and shelters as COVID-19 raged in New York City, putting them at heightened risk of serious illness, a new lawsuit demanding relief charges. The suit, filed late Thursday by the Legal Aid Socie ..Read More
Today’s Read: NYC Students in Shelters Still Can’t Get on the Internet Posted on October 20, 2020 by Jacquelyn Simone The coronavirus pandemic has illuminated and exacerbated many underlying inequities across racial and class lines. The swift transition to remote learning for New York City students this spring is one galling example of the impact of the digital divide, as tho ..Read More
Winter presents new challenges to caring for New York’s homeless Posted on October 15, 2020 by Tim Williams in WNYC Oct. 15, 2020 – What is the state and local governments doing to help homeless New Yorkers as we move into the colder months of the year? We asked Giselle Routhier, Policy Director for the Coalition for the Homeless, when she joins the program. ..Read More
Opinion: City’s Move to Vacate UWS Hotel Shelter is Adding ‘Trauma on Top of Trauma,’ Resident Says Posted on October 13, 2020 by Shams DaBaron in City Limits On September 13, I stood on the grounds of Gracie Mansion, home to Mayor Bill de Blasio, alongside other homeless New Yorkers and advocates. We protested the mayor’s decision to remove hundreds of us from the Lucerne Hotel on West 79th Street on th ..Read More
Will Deeper Segregation Be Bill de Blasio’s Legacy? Posted on October 9, 2020 by Corinne Low in The Nation country’s original sin of slavery, with white liberals everywhere suddenly activated against police violence and systematic racism. But here in supposedly progressive New York City—where Mayor Bill de Blasio personally helped paint the words “Black Lives ..Read More
Grandma Quarantined at LaGuardia Hotel Treated More Like Inmate than Guest Amid COVID-19 Test Snag Posted on October 4, 2020 by Greg B. Smith in The City The LaGuardia Plaza, about a block from the airport, looks from the outside like any hotel that caters to business travelers: a sweeping circular driveway and meticulously landscaped entrance leading to a shiny glass box on Ditmars Boulevard. These days, howev ..Read More
Do right by homeless people: A novel idea for how to approach New Yorkers in deep distress Posted on October 9, 2020 by Dave Giffen, Josh Goldfein in The New York Daily News The recent debacle surrounding the city’s use of the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side to shelter homeless men during the pandemic, and Mayor de Blasio’s Sept. 8 order to transfer the men out of that hotel in response to NIMBY — and, at times, outward ..Read More
