Author: Patrick Markee

According to an alarming new U.S. Census Bureau report, in 2010 more than one quarter of all homeless children in U.S. shelters was in New York. The bottom line: Mayor Bloomberg’s failed homeless policies are halting the Obama administration’s goal of endi ..Read More

With some 20,000 homeless children sleeping each night in NYC shelters, a new NY Times editorial called on the Mayor and Governor to provide permanent housing aid for vulnerable kids and families. The Mayor’s response so far: No housing, but more and more ..Read More

Newly-released data show that New York City’s homeless shelter population has soared to new record highs: More than 44,400 people per night including 18,000 kids. And Mayor Bloomberg’s only response is to open more costly shelters. City data show that, in ..Read More

Despite record and rising NYC homelessness, Bloomberg administration officials refuse to acknowledge their failed homeless policies. So instead they’re attacking their critics, including homeless advocates. Homelessness in New York City has soared to all-tim ..Read More

Are “out-of-towners” driving New York City’s record homelessness crisis and “flooding” our shelters as the NY Daily News – and now Mayor Bloomberg –suggest? In a word: No. Today’s Daily News article makes the wild claim tha ..Read More

The number of homeless kids and families in New York City has risen even more sharply since the spring, eclipsing previous record highs. And Mayor Bloomberg still refuses to sign on to a proven plan to reduce NYC homelessness. As we documented in our State of ..Read More

A new class action lawsuit challenges the mismanagement and underfunding of a joint City-State rental assistance program designed to prevent homelessness – a program sorely needed now as thousands of former Advantage families face eviction. Today’s Wall S ..Read More

A bracing new report reminds us of the major structural cause of record homelessness in New York City: The widening gap between incomes and apartment rents. The Community Service Society’s report, Making the Rent: Before and After the Recession, written by ..Read More

Today the NYC Independent Budget Office (IBO) released its analysis of the plan advanced by Speaker Christine Quinn and the New York City Council that would target Federal housing assistance to help homeless children and families leave shelters. And the IBO f ..Read More