Today’s Read: Seeking Shelter at LaGuardia Airport Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone For most people, waiting in an airport is a tedious but necessary part of traveling. The only thing that makes the hours of sitting at a terminal bearable is the thought of the trip they will be taking when they finally hear the call to board their flight. But ..Read More
Today’s Video: New York’s Homeless Population at All-Time High of 60,000 Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone More than 60,000 New Yorkers are homeless. It’s important to keep in mind that behind the alarming statistics, there are thousands of individual men, women and children – each with his or her own identity and story. A recent BBC News segment features the ..Read More
NY’s Homeless Population Hits Record High as Poverty Explodes in America Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Epoch Times The homeless population in the nation’s largest city has exploded to an all-time high, forcing officials to provide shelter to desperate families in dilapidated tenements that have been identified by housing authorities as dangerous. ..Read More
To Human Traffickers, Runaway & Homeless Youth Are Walking Prey Posted on March 5, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Huffington Post It is hard to think of a more despicable crime than the buying and selling of other human beings, especially children. Yet we know that it is happening right here in America, every day. Each year, thousands of children are bought and sold for sex. That should ..Read More
Today’s Read: Rise to the Challenge and Fight Street Homelessness Posted on March 6, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone While an entire generation of New Yorkers has grown up in a city where mass homelessness, sadly, no longer seems shocking, it can be easy to forget that things don’t have to be this way and proven solutions are at hand. One of the most powerful and cost-effe ..Read More
America’s homeless children Posted on March 2, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Deutsche Welle The second-richest country in the world is failing to provide a roof over the heads of some 2.5 million children. In New York alone, about 20,000 people live on the street, in the shadows of skyscrapers. Dallas, Aliyah and their parents are staying in a shelte ..Read More
Today’s Read: Blueprint Now in Place, de Blasio Builds a Homeless Policy Posted on March 5, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone As one of the worst winters in memory continues to pummel the city, who among us can walk past the countless homeless men and women we see huddled against the bitter cold without wondering what is being done to help them? And with tens of thousands more men, ..Read More
Rise to the challenge and fight street homelessness Posted on March 3, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News When modern homelessness first emerged, our nation was shocked at the spectacle of men and women bedding down on the streets of large cities, and even small towns. For those of us who rallied to bring our homeless neighbors in out of the cold, New York City wa ..Read More
Thousands of New Yorkers living in dangerous ‘cluster units’ as homeless population tops 59,000, a record high Posted on February 1, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News The homeless count represents a 10% jump during Mayor de Blasio’s first year in office. Despite his vows to turn around the problem and ditch the use of cluster units, the city is still forced to house families in these much-criticized apartments, which ..Read More
