The Hourly Wage Needed to Rent a 2-Bedroom Apartment Is Rising Posted on May 25, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in CityLab In 2015, the demand for rental apartments reached its highest level ever since the 1960s. The pinched access to mortgage credit after the Great Recession is one reason why. Another is that many Americans—especially the poor and people of color—haven’t fe ..Read More
The Top 5 Neighborhoods That Are Becoming Unaffordable to Locals Posted on May 27, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in DNAinfo When it comes to neighborhoods where residents face the biggest challenge of affording to stay in their homes, The Bronx is home to the top five of them, according to an analysis from a housing advocacy group released Thursday. Residents in the University Heig ..Read More
Supportive Housing Push Launched for MOU Posted on May 25, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in State of Politics A coalition of groups backing an expansion of supportive housing units for the homeless has launched an email campaign to push Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to sign on to a memorandum of understanding ..Read More
For Some Prisoners, Finishing Their Sentences Doesn’t Mean They Get Out Posted on May 24, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Marshall Project After serving a year and two months for a probation violation, Landreaux Yantz should have been able to walk out of a New York state prison on June 26, 2015. But officials would not let him leave. “When I laid in my bed every night I was thinking, ‘I’m f ..Read More
A Right to Shelter in New York Posted on May 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times While it is indeed deplorable that the Obama administration has proposed cuts to funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for emergency shelter in New York City at a time of record need, there is no possibility that these cuts will cause ne ..Read More
Today’s Read: Pushing Gov. Cuomo to Dole Out Promised $2 Billion for Affordable Housing Posted on May 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone With less than a month left of the State legislative session and near-record numbers of New Yorkers bedding down in shelters and on the streets, the time is now for the Governor and legislative leaders to take action on homelessness. In his State of the State ..Read More
N.Y. Attorney General Reaches Deal With 3 Real Estate Firms Charged With Illegally Denying Apartments to People on Housing Assistance Posted on May 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reached deals with three major real estate firms to stop what he claimed was the illegal denial of apartments to people on public housing assistance, the Daily News has learned. In settlements to be announced Monday ..Read More
Campaign Launched Pushing Gov. Cuomo to Dole Out Promised $2 Billion for Affordable Housing Posted on May 22, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News A coalition of groups is launching a campaign this week to push Gov. Cuomo to follow through on a promise to fund thousands of new supportive housing units before the legislative session ends next month. The Campaign 4 NY/NY Housing is calling on Cuomo to cut ..Read More
City’s Housing Crisis is Bigger Than Gentrification: Report Posted on May 17, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits The financial crisis of 2008 is old news – unless you are a New Yorker whose income is below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, a typical cut-off point for the “near poor.” The median household in that group is paying 49 of its income towar ..Read More
