Letter to the Editor: Migrants and End of Covid Restrictions Fuel Jump in Homelessness Posted on December 30, 2024 The Coalition for the Homeless responds to Jason DeParle’s piece, Migrants and End of Covid Restrictions Fuel Jump in Homelessness, published in The New York Times on December 27, 2024. To the editors, Jason DeParle’s article leaves readers with two in ..Read More
Suspect in fatal New York subway burning indicted on charges of murder and arson Posted on December 27, 2024 by Hanna Park, Gloria Pazmino and Sabrina Shulman in CNN ..Read More
The real implications of Daniel Penny’s Acquittal Posted on December 27, 2024 by Will Watts As I read the news about the verdict in the Daniel Penny trial, an all too familiar feeling emerged – a feeling of the failure of yet another system to recognize that my life and those of other Black men matter. But this time that feeling was more intense as ..Read More
Subway Burning Highlights Difficulty of Identifying Homeless Victims Posted on December 25, 2024 by Mihir Zaveri in New York Times ..Read More
These workers don’t take the holidays off Posted on December 22, 2024 by By Ryan Benk, Ayesha Rascoe, Ed McNulty in NPR ..Read More
City to Close Dozens of Sites Housing Migrants, Citing Dip in Shelter Population Posted on December 10, 2024 by Jeanmarie Evelly in City Limits Officials attributed the closures to a steady decline in the number of people in the shelter system over the last several months—though nearly 55,000 migrants and asylum seekers remain, the majority of them families with children. ..Read More
New York to Close Giant Family Shelter to Protect Migrants From Trump Posted on December 10, 2024 by Luis Ferré-Sadurní in The New York Times New York City officials announced on Tuesday that they would close a giant tent complex in Brooklyn that houses some 2,000 migrants, a pre-emptive step meant to fend off concerns that the shelter could be targeted by the Trump administration. ..Read More
New York mayor closes shelters for asylum seekers amid rightward turn Posted on December 10, 2024 by Marina Dunbar in The Guardian The New York city mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Tuesday that an additional 25 shelters used to house asylum seekers will be closing in the coming two months. ..Read More
NYC to close migrant shelter at Brooklyn airfield by early 2025 Posted on December 10, 2024 by Amanda Garcia in ABC News The Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at Floyd Bennett Field, located at a former airfield in the borough of Brooklyn, joins a growing list of 25 shelters the city has either closed or is in the processing of shutting down. ..Read More
