New York City Is Failing Homeless Students, Reports Say Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times City workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say. Mayor ..Read More
Today’s Read: Population at City Homeless Shelters Hits Record High Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone This week, the Coalition for the Homeless released our 2018 State of the Homeless report, Fate of a Generation: How the City and State Can Tackle Homelessness by Bringing Housing Investment to Scale. The annual report offers a comprehensive analysis of record ..Read More
Report: Number of Homeless in City Shelters at Record High Posted on March 14, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in NY1 News The number of people staying at city homeless shelters reportedly hit an all time high last year. According to the Daily News, the annual report by the Coalition for the Homeless found the average nightly population in city shelters reached 63,495 in December. ..Read More
Population at City Homeless Shelters Hits Record High of 63,495, Study Shows Posted on March 14, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News The average nightly population in city homeless shelters last December was 63,495 — a record high, the annual State of the Homeless Report from the Coalition for the Homeless found. “It’s a huge amount of people,” Giselle Routhier, policy director at C ..Read More
Today’s Listen: Podcast on Shelter Numbers, de Blasio’s Agenda, Cuomo’s Record Posted on March 6, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone This week, Coalition for the Homeless Policy Director Giselle Routhier visited the Max & Murphy podcast with City Limits and Gotham Gazette for a wide-ranging conversation on the policies needed to effectively combat record homelessness: “It’s ok to sa ..Read More
Top Homeless Advocate on Shelter Numbers, De Blasio’s Agenda, Cuomo’s Record Posted on March 5, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits New York’s homeless shelter numbers—a consistent source of alarm over the last five years—have shown some signs of stabilizing. The average number of families with children in the system has been lower in each of the past eight months than over the compa ..Read More
Today’s Read: A ‘Bright Light,’ Dimmed in the Shadows of Homelessness Posted on March 5, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone In addition to the record number of homeless New Yorkers in shelters, thousands more sleep each night on the streets, in subways, and in parks. Benjamin Weiser of The New York Times wrote a vivid and heartbreaking profile of Nakesha Williams, one of these New ..Read More
A ‘Bright Light,’ Dimmed in the Shadows of Homelessness Posted on March 3, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times They met on a rainy morning several years ago, at the base of the Helmsley Building in Midtown Manhattan. As others hurried to work, Pamela J. Dearden, an executive with JPMorgan Chase, noticed a woman, unperturbed by the rain or her surroundings, standing on ..Read More
Coalition Testifies on Opioid Overdoses Among NYC’s Homeless Population Posted on March 1, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone On Tuesday, Coalition for the Homeless and The Legal Aid Society presented testimony before the New York City Council’s Committees on General Welfare and Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction about opioid overdoses among NYC’s homeless population. Th ..Read More
