Honest Talk About a Profound Problem: How New York City is Taking Strong Steps to Help the Homeless Posted on October 19, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News The Daily News Editorial Board, pointing to recent conflict, wrongfully asserted that my administration has made shelters too accessible — yet offered no real proposal on how to protect those on the edge of homelessness. Unfortunately, this position has cons ..Read More
Vote: Homeless New Yorkers Have a Voice Posted on October 18, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone With only three weeks until Election Day, it’s important that homeless New Yorkers prepare to exercise their right to vote. OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS: The number of homeless New Yorkers sleeping in municipal shelters has risen 32 percent, reaching 61,464 peop ..Read More
Homelessness Among NYC Schoolkids Surges as Population Tops 100,000 Posted on October 17, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Nearly one in 10 city schoolkids was homeless during the school year that ended in June, representing a whopping 22% jump in homelessness over the year before, the Daily News has learned. A staggering 105,445 homeless students attended city schools in the 2015 ..Read More
New to the Neighborhood Posted on October 17, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Nonprofit Media A fear among neighborhood residents that new homeless shelters will bring unfamiliar people – some of them desperate or addicted to drugs or mentally ill – into their community is not a new phenomenon. But with the ranks of the homeless sleeping in shelter ..Read More
Today’s Video: No Shelter Posted on October 17, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone Homelessness is a citywide problem stemming from the severe lack of affordable housing in every borough. More than half of New Yorkers are dealing with unaffordable rents, one unforeseen circumstance away from falling behind and facing eviction. Fortunately, i ..Read More
‘The System Is Beyond the Breaking Point’ Posted on October 12, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Village Voice As the rate of homelessness in New York City has reached a record high, with around 60,000 people living in shelters, the effects on the 30,000 children in the system are devastating. Students often move multiple times on short notice, and because the system i ..Read More
The Remarkable Thing That Happens to Poor Kids When You Help Their Parents With Rent Posted on October 12, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Washington Post Few programs for the poor are so widely reviled as public housing. For opponents on the right, housing projects are costly monuments to the folly of misguided idealism, stifling residents’ ambition by surrounding them with crime, decay and bureaucracy. F ..Read More
For New York City’s Homeless Children, Getting to School Is the Hard Part Posted on October 10, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Family workers carrying caseloads of 256 children at a time. A girl who had transferred to four different schools, one of them twice, by age 11. Attendance reports from multiple agencies, but with none held responsible for making sure that students actually we ..Read More
It Is Time to Start Building Affordable Housing Posted on October 8, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Democrat & Chronicle In another audacious display of dysfunction, Albany’s “three men in a room” are now “three men in three different rooms.” That is how it appears, as housing advocates across New York wait in vain for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majo ..Read More
