Today’s Read: A Compassionate Response to Homelessness Posted on April 21, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone Although permanent housing is the solution to homelessness, shelters are a necessary immediate resource for men, women, and children who find themselves in urgent need of a safe place to sleep. Thanks to landmark litigation brought by the Coalition for the Hom ..Read More
Congress Should Not Balance the Budget on the Backs of Low-Income Americans Posted on April 19, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in City & State All of us at the Coalition for the Homeless, New York’s premier homeless advocacy and direct service organization, are disheartened that the budget debate in Washington has not paid enough attention to just how much these spending cuts will affect people in ..Read More
When Mayor de Blasio Released His Plans to Open Over 90 Homeless Shelters, It Sent Shock Waves Throughout the City Posted on April 17, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Our Time Press Immediately after his announcement, many residents from the communities of Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts-Gardens came out to an emergency meeting in order to voice their outrage over another shelter being placed in their area. I shared that concern. When ..Read More
Advocates Urge de Blasio to Reinstate $10.3M in City Budget to Provide Crucial Services for Homeless Kids Posted on April 19, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Mayor de Blasio must restore $10.3 million to the upcoming city budget for critical services for homeless kids, advocates and families insist. De Blasio included the money in his 2017 budget as part of a $30 million package of services for homeless families, b ..Read More
Evictions Aren’t the Answer, Say Advocates, After Investigations Dept. Slams NYCHA Posted on April 19, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits Criminal justice advocates are hoping to head-off the crackdown against NYCHA tenants that the city’s Department of Investigation endorsed in a report last month. In an investigation released March 28, DOI alleged that the public-housing authority is too len ..Read More
Today’s Video: How Homelessness Has Worsened in the City Posted on April 18, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone With the New York City shelter system bursting at the seams and thousands of people sleeping on subways or sidewalks, many New Yorkers are asking themselves how we got to this point. The answer, as explained in the Coalition’s annual State of the Homeless re ..Read More
Living by the Girl Scout Law, Even Without a Home Posted on April 16, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times The girls streamed into what once served as a dining room at a Sleep Inn in Queens, ready to begin their meeting with a roll call. One by one came the names: “Jessica. Luz,” recited Karina, a fifth grader. “Carmen?” The room was small enough that Karin ..Read More
How Homelessness Has Worsened in the City Posted on April 16, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in NY1 Giselle Routhier from the Coalition for the Homeless and George Nashak from HELP USA talk about why the City’s homeless problem has worsened over the years. ..Read More
Today’s Read: Thousands of Working New Yorkers Are Living in Homeless Shelters Posted on April 13, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone The primary driver of record homelessness is the worsening citywide housing affordability crisis. In every borough, skyrocketing rents and stagnant incomes have left more and more New Yorkers on the brink of homelessness: As of 2014, one-third of all NYC rente ..Read More
