On Tenant Blacklist, Errors and Renters With Little Recourse Posted on August 16, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times After two years of being homeless, napping in stores open all night and more recently staying in a convent in Harlem, Margot Miller found out in March that her luck was about to change: She had qualified for an apartment for low-income older adults. “This is ..Read More
Today’s Read: Advocates Fume as State Housing Plan Delayed Until 2017 Posted on August 15, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone While thousands of New Yorkers endure dangerously high temperatures on the city’s scorching streets and in crowded shelters, politicians in Albany are needlessly delaying the development of housing that could rescue them from the indignity and perils of home ..Read More
Explosion of Homelessness Predicted for Obama Administration Voucher Plan to Desegregate Low-Income Tenants Posted on August 14, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News A well-intentioned Obama administration move to combat segregation of the poor is a recipe for disaster in New York City, a growing chorus of critics says. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to change the way it doles out housing vouche ..Read More
Health Care Reaches Homeless on Streets Posted on August 14, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Wall Street Journal In the shadow of a Metro-North Railroad overpass in Harlem, Richard Thomas keeps his right leg propped up on an old stationary exercise bike. Two white medical bands on his wrist hint at his latest hospital stint. Mr. Thomas is one of an estimated 200 homeless ..Read More
Advocates Fume as State Housing Plan Delayed Until 2017 Posted on August 12, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Crain's New York A group calling for more apartments for the homeless criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday for delaying the state’s plans for $2 billion in affordable housing money, which was earmarked this spring as part of the state budget. In April, the governor signed ..Read More
Homeless Advocates Press Gov. Cuomo to Stick to Housing Pledge Posted on August 3, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News For the second week in a row, homeless people and advocates protested outside of Gov. Cuomo’s Third Ave. office, demanding he follow through on his pledge to spend $1.9 billion on 20,000 units of supportive housing. Around 50 protesters urged Cuomo to cu ..Read More
It’s About to Get Easier for Homeless Kids to Go to School Posted on August 1, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in TakePart They sleep in cars, shelters, or trailer parks or doubled up in bedrooms, but thanks to new guidance from the U.S. Department of Education, America’s 1.3 million homeless students should soon find it easier to enroll and succeed in the nation’s public scho ..Read More
Number of Homeless Single Adults in NYC Has Risen 95 Percent in a Decade Posted on August 1, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Huffington Post A record number of single adults are homeless in New York City. On a given night, 14,222 single adults ― meaning they are not part of a family ― seek out homeless shelters in NYC, Giselle Routhier, policy director for the Coalition for the Homeless, told T ..Read More
The Rise of K2: The Drug is Legal, Dangerous – And Can’t Be Stopped Posted on August 1, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Guardian Beauty has seizures, and she worries about what she’ll be doing when the next one occurs. She was lucky with the first: she was in bed asleep next to her boyfriend, who woke to the bed shaking and was quick to pry his 24-year-old girlfriend’s jaw open to p ..Read More
