NYC Council Considers Bill to Probe Why Homeless Are Denied Supportive Housing Posted on November 29, 2021 by David Brand in City Limits During the first 10 months of 2020, nonprofit providers scheduled nearly 3,000 interviews with supportive housing applicants, 560 of whom were outright rejected. The housing shortage allows providers to “cherry-pick” applicants who require the fewest servi ..Read More
New York can solve homelessness: But we won’t get there by simply transforming the right to shelter into a right to housing Posted on November 9, 2021 by Dave Giffen in New York Daily News As cities throughout the United States are grappling with how to address the growing problem of mass homelessness, many municipalities have been turning a curious eye to New York, where, despite our many challenges, the crisis looks dramatically different than ..Read More
Home is Hope PSA and Statement Posted on November 10, 2021 EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO A HOME Forty years ago, the Coalition for the Homeless secured the legal right to shelter for New Yorkers without homes, creating a baseline of decency in our city. We need now to build on that baseline, because people need home ..Read More
Now or Never: The High Stakes of Federal Housing Funding Posted on October 21, 2021 by Rachel Fee in Gotham Gazette When President Biden and Congress first announced the details of the Build Back Better Act, they sent a loud and clear signal to housing advocates and stakeholders that help was finally on the way. The $330 billion investment into the Department of Housing and ..Read More
More than 100K NYC students were homeless at some point last school year Posted on November 8, 2021 by Michael Elsen-Rooney in New York Daily News More than 100,000 city public school students were homeless at some point during the past school year, according to new state Education Department data. For the sixth year in a row, more than 101,000 city kids lived in unstable housing, including 28,000 who sp ..Read More
Op-Ed | Section 8, or one man’s quest for a golden ticket Posted on November 3, 2021 by Winston Tokuhisa in amNY I am an aspiring software engineer, and first met Bill de Blasio, who was then the Public Advocate, in 2010 at a General Welfare Committee hearing, at which I testified about the challenges of trying to pursue an education while homeless. At the time, he was m ..Read More