As Shelter Population Skyrockets, Cuomo Holds Back Promised Housing Posted on August 26, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Village Voice As Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio competitively pledged new units of supportive housing to help the city confront its historically high homeless shelter population, it looked like their stupid feud might actually help NYC for once. De Blasio pr ..Read More
NYC Homelessness Hits All-Time High, as Advocates Blame Gov. Cuomo for Not Following Through on Housing Pledge Posted on August 26, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News A shortage of supportive housing has helped drive homelessness for single adults to record highs, the Coalition for the Homeless says in a new report. The number of single adults living in city shelters hit an all-time high of 14,442 in March, the group found ..Read More
Poverty Drives Homeless Rates? Not So Fast Posted on August 24, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Boston Globe Fill in the blank. When the economy collapses, the number of homeless Americans goes ___. While you might expect the answer to be “up,” during the recession of 2007-2009 the number of homeless people in America dropped slightly. Compare homelessness across ..Read More
Today’s Read: How Do Rent-Burdened New Yorkers Cope? Posted on August 25, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone The worsening housing affordability crisis throughout New York City is a direct driver of near-record homelessness. Incomes have stagnated as rents continue to soar, leaving more and more people with massive rent burdens. If they fall behind and are evicted, i ..Read More
How Do Rent-Burdened New Yorkers Cope? Posted on August 24, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Housing is generally considered affordable if a household allots no more than 30 percent of its income to home payments and utilities. By that standard, more than half of renters in New York City are “cost-burdened” and may find it hard to pay for other ne ..Read More
Success and Struggles Point to a Better Way to Help NYC’s Chronically Homeless Posted on August 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits For three years, Mark Williams has come home to his own studio apartment in a spacious six-story building on the western edge of Fordham manor. But even now, Williams remembers exactly what it’s like to freeze on the New York City streets in the winter: ..Read More
The Rise and Fall of ‘Clean and Sober’ in Supportive Housing Posted on August 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits New York City’s homeless population is no monolith, and the 2005 NY/NYIII supportive-housing funding agreement explicitly recognized that. Kingsbridge Terrace, a supportive housing facility run by Jericho Project in the Bronx, was in part funded for R ..Read More
Too Rich to Be Poor, Too Poor to Get By Posted on August 22, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Wilson Quarterly A line of wilting people snakes across the busy Brooklyn sidewalk. Families cluster beneath a few sparse trees and flatten themselves under narrow awnings, some sinking to the ground, seeking a sliver of shade. Most people have been waiting two to three hours ..Read More
A Bit of Cash Can Keep Someone Off the Streets for 2 Years or More Posted on August 11, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Science If someone is about to become homeless, giving them a single cash infusion, averaging about $1000, may be enough to keep them off the streets for at least 2 years. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that programs that proactively assist those ..Read More
