Life Inside the Hotels for New York’s Homeless Posted on June 28, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Vice The Verve Hotel doesn’t stick out. The tan, six-floor building in the Dutch Kills neighborhood of Queens is typical of the quiet industrial area, surrounded as it is by bodyshops, single-family homes, a rumbling elevated train, and hotels of a modernist ..Read More
New York Attempts to Fight Street Homelessness Block by Block Posted on June 28, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC Mayor de Blasio has sent out dozens of city workers to search for the homeless on the streets, in an effort to combat the problem — and fend off the criticism he faced last summer. At a cost of $2.6 million, the city has hired 52 canvassers who walk every bl ..Read More
For the Second Year, Rents in Some Stabilized Apartments in New York City Will Not Increase Posted on June 27, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times The board that sets rents for more than one million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City voted on Monday to freeze rents for one-year leases for the second year in a row. By a vote of 7 to 0, with two abstentions, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board ..Read More
100 Homeless New Yorkers to be Honored for Graduating From NYC Public High Schools Posted on June 25, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News More than 50,000 students will graduate from New York City high schools in the Class of 2016. But that special milestone may have the most meaning for 100 homeless grads who will be recognized Wednesday at a special ceremony in Manhattan for earning their dipl ..Read More
Today’s Listen: Unfulfilled Hopes and Promises, State and City Unfinished Business Posted on June 24, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone On the most recent episode of the podcast Max & Murphy on Housing, Coalition for the Homeless President & CEO Mary Brosnahan and Deputy Executive Director for Policy Shelly Nortz discussed current homelessness policies and the need for further action b ..Read More
State Promises and City Progress on Homelessness Posted on June 24, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits It has been quite a year for homeless policy in New York City. It was last summer that the press frenzied over homeless encampments around the city, prompting a police crackdown. Then came the fall, and the mayor’s announcement he’d stop waiting fo ..Read More
Comptroller Finds Problems with Homeless Shelters as Advocates Say 1 Year of Funding is Not Enough Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in WXXI News Some Homeless advocates are dismayed by what they say is Governor Cuomo’s failure at the end of the legislative session to follow through with promises to fund five years worth of new supportive housing and other services for the homeless. Their complaints c ..Read More
Advocates Fault Cuomo For Broken Promise on New Housing Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gay City News With the New York State legislative session ending without an agreement on how to spend billions that Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed be used to fight homelessness, advocates and their allies are pummeling the governor for breaking a promise. “The governor is ..Read More
Panel Talks Push to Get City to Provide Legal Counsel to NYers Facing Eviction Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Inside City Hall Four members of a special panel joined Errol Louis in studio to talk about the push to get the city to provide legal counsel to New Yorkers facing eviction: Susanna Blankley, the Director of Community Action for Safe Apartments; Andrew Scherer, Policy Director ..Read More
