State Withholds Funds From Some New York City Homeless Shelters Posted on May 12, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Wall Street Journal New York state moved Tuesday night to withhold funding from some of New York City’s homeless shelters because of their poor conditions, sparking a fight over near-record homelessness in the city. In a letter Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration sent to City ..Read More
Task Force to Speed Up Homeless Shelter Repairs Posted on May 11, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Fox 5 NY The opening page on the Coalition for the Homeless website paints a disturbing picture: more than 60,000 people are sleeping in city shelters. More than 24,000 of them are children. 2015 has seen the highest numbers of homeless ever in city history. Coalition ..Read More
De Blasio Plan Would Improve Conditions at Homeless Shelters Posted on May 11, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Capital New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has grappled with a growing homeless problem during his tenure, said Monday that the city’s homeless population is declining and rolled out a new initiative to improve shelter conditions. More than 56,000 people currently reside ..Read More
De Blasio to Deploy ‘SWAT Teams’ to Repair NYC’s Squalid Homeless Shelters Posted on May 11, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday that the city will deploy “SWAT Teams” to correct hundreds of building, fire and other code violations at homeless shelters. He made the announcement at the Corona Family Residence in Queens. At the Corona Family Residen ..Read More
Today’s Read: de Blasio’s Plan to Improve Conditions at Homeless Shelters Posted on May 12, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone Every New Yorker deserves a permanent home. They also deserve – and, thanks to the Coalition, have the legal right to – safe and decent shelter. Unfortunately, after years of neglect, conditions in the many of the City’s shelters are appalling. A Departm ..Read More
Today’s Read: Mayor Vows to Give 7,000 Homeless Families Permanent Shelter Posted on May 11, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone With more than 60,000 New Yorkers sleeping in homeless shelters every night, it is imperative that our elected leaders prioritize strategies to effectively combat the unprecedented crisis. Mayor de Blasio has taken another important step to try to meet the cha ..Read More
What If the Key to Ending Homelessness is Just That—a Key? Posted on May 8, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in TakePart The whole mess started around noon on a Sunday in March, when two homeless men on L.A.’s Skid Row got into some sort of spat. Something about a tent, or the location of a tent, or the contents of a tent. Typical Skid Row stuff, the kind of thing you can’t ..Read More
Richard Gere Discusses Homelessness at Montclair Film Festival Posted on May 11, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Montclair Times It’s Richard Gere as you’ve never seen him: He lets his movie-star looks go, sleeps in a bathtub, and even panhandles for spare change. Despite on-screen appearances, Gere’s real-life fortunes seem intact. This was a required transformation f ..Read More
Amid Housing Woes, Tenants Want a Voice Posted on May 7, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Queens Chronicle Jose Genao, 40, who lives on Denman Street in Elmhurst, had to put off surgery on his injured foot for nearly five months, waiting for his 7-story building’s elevator to be fixed. While the issue was resolved when ownership changed, he and his fellow tenants ..Read More
