New York Is Ripping Up the Playbook on How It Shelters the Homeless Posted on May 25, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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
Where Brooklyn Tenants Plead the Case for Keeping Their Homes Posted on May 20, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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 Jacquelyn Simone 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
Today’s Read: Advocates Call for More Homeless Housing Units in de Blasio’s Housing Plan Posted on April 26, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone On Monday, the Coalition for the Homeless and a group of 43 organizations sent a letter to Mayor de Blasio calling on him to dedicate 30,000 units of his Housing New York 2.0 plan to homeless New Yorkers, or 10 percent of the total 300,000-unit plan. Currently ..Read More
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to Propose Raising Rent for Low-Income Americans Receiving Federal Housing Subsidies Posted on April 25, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Washington Post Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson proposed far-reaching changes to federal housing subsidies Wednesday, tripling rent for the poorest households and making it easier for housing authorities to impose work requirements. Carson’s proposals, an ..Read More
Council Speaker Slams Slow Progress of de Blasio’s Supportive Housing Plan Posted on April 24, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News City Council Speaker Corey Johnson tore into the de Blasio administration for delays in its plan to build thousands of supportive housing apartments for formerly homeless New Yorkers. Mayor de Blasio promised in 2015 to create 15,000 supportive housing units o ..Read More
