Today’s Read: What Homeless New Yorkers Should Demand From the Mayor’s Housing Plan Posted on October 19, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone Record homelessness demands bold action. The House Our Future NY campaign, led by the Coalition for the Homeless and 58 partner organizations, is urging Mayor de Blasio to dedicate at least 10 percent of his 300,000-unit Housing New York 2.0 plan to homel ..Read More
Today’s Read: Homeless in New York Public Schools at a Record High: 114,659 Students Posted on October 16, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone As the affordable housing crisis forces even more New Yorkers into homelessness, the impact is felt in classrooms throughout New York City. New data released this week show that the number of NYC students experiencing homelessness during the 2017-2018 school y ..Read More
Homeless in New York Public Schools at a Record High: 114,659 Students Posted on October 15, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Tonight, about one out of every 10 students in New York City will sleep in a homeless shelter or in the homes of relatives. That’s more children than at any other time since city records have been kept. In the morning, those same children will fan out across ..Read More
Despite Record Affordable Housing, Poorest New Yorkers Struggle to Pay Rent Posted on October 11, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in Crain's The city is building and preserving more affordable housing than ever, but federal programs remain the most effective tool for supporting the poorest households, according to a report released Thursday. The Citizens Budget Commission analyzed a recent housing ..Read More
Today’s Read: de Blasio Rebuffs Question on Homelessness Posted on October 10, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone The House Our Future NY campaign to urge Mayor de Blasio to set aside more affordable housing for homeless New Yorkers continues to gain momentum. Currently, a mere 5 percent of Mayor de Blasio’s 300,000-unit Housing New York 2.0 plan is set aside for homele ..Read More
Today’s Read: de Blasio has no Comprehensive Plan to Rehouse the Homeless Posted on October 5, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone Tonight, a near-record 62,166 New Yorkers will go to sleep in homeless shelters, and thousands more will bed down on the streets. Mayor de Blasio, meanwhile, has chosen to dedicate a mere 5 percent of his Housing New York 2.0 plan to homeless New Yorkers – a ..Read More
New York Takes Step in Long, Hard Journey to Supportive Housing Goal Posted on September 27, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC The 28-story residence hall at 90 Sands Street in DUMBO is sparsely decorated; the large community rooms where hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses once gathered now sit empty. But give it a year’s worth of renovation work and developers say the building wi ..Read More
Checking in on NYC’s Ambitious Homeless Shelter Overhaul, 18 Months Later Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in Curbed New York On a recent weekday morning, the cafeteria of the Bergen House in Crown Heights, Brooklyn was quiet. Seated around long plastic tables, residents from the 104-bed homeless shelter for senior men played dominoes and chatted. One man built small figurines from w ..Read More
New York Housing Crisis: Low-Rent Apartment Stock Has Plummeted Since 2005, Stringer Says Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in amNewYork Tenants and affordable housing advocates joined New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer in lower Manhattan Tuesday to call for rent law reform amid an affordability crisis in the city. A comptroller’s office report titled “The Gap is Still Growing: New Yo ..Read More
