Today’s Read: Expansion of Federal Rental Assistance Would Bring Significant Drop in Poverty, Homelessness Posted on September 27, 2021 For decades, the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program has proven to be one of the most effective solutions to homelessness and housing instability, by subsidizing rents for low-income Americans. However, despite ample research on the program’s effectiven ..Read More
NYC Council, convicts seek background check ban in fight against ex-prisoner homelessness Posted on September 6, 2021 by Michael Gartland in New York Daily News After a 1979 double murder conviction, there was little question where Roslyn Smith would lay her head for the foreseeable future. ..Read More
Pandemic Worsens Hard Road to Housing for Homeless New Yorkers with Health Needs Posted on September 1, 2021 by David Brand in City Limits Kenneth Jones learned he lost his room in an East New York hotel, rented out as a temporary homeless shelter, as soon as he returned from Brookdale Hospital last week. ..Read More
Today’s Read: Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere in America Posted on July 20, 2021 by Jacquelyn Simone Even before the economic upheaval of the pandemic, many Americans were either homeless or on the brink of homelessness due to the dire lack of affordable housing nationwide. The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s annual Out of Reach report, released las ..Read More
The Unhoused Don’t Want to “Go Back to Normal” Posted on July 19, 2021 by Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, and Carmel Delshad in Slate During the height of the pandemic, New York City put up some of its homeless population in the city’s empty hotels. Now, as the city comes back to life, the program is ending—but the city’s unhoused population doesn’t want to go “back to normal.̶ ..Read More
The Latest on the City’s Plans to Move Homeless New Yorkers Back to Shelters Posted on July 16, 2021 by Brian Lehrer in The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC The city was in the midst of moving homeless people from hotels and into shelters, where the conditions are crowded, and COVID is a bigger risk, when a judge blocked the city’s plan. Jacquelyn Simone, senior policy analyst for Coalition for the Homeles ..Read More
Today’s Read: Judge Halts Homeless Hotel Transfers Until City Accommodates Residents With Disabilities Posted on July 15, 2021 by Jacquelyn Simone Just as the dangerously contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus has become the dominant strain causing rapidly rising COVID-19 case rates, Mayor de Blasio has inexplicably rushed to move homeless single adults out of the hotels that have been used to ..Read More
N.Y.C.’s Plan to Move Homeless People From Hotels Is Blocked by a Judge Posted on July 13, 2021 by Andy Newman in The New York Times New York City’s plan to move 8,000 homeless people out of hotels and into barracks-style shelters was disrupted on Tuesday when a federal judge ruled that officials were not adequately considering the health of those being moved. The ruling blocks the city f ..Read More
Homeless in hotels can stay put for now, says federal judge who orders NYC to improve plan for moving them to shelters Posted on July 13, 2021 by Molly Crane-Newman in NY Daily News Homeless people moved to hotels during the COVID pandemic can stay put for a while longer while the city works out a better plan for returning them to shelters, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. “The public has an interest in ensuring that disabled, homeless pe ..Read More
