Remembering Anna Lou Dehavenon Posted on March 1, 2012 by PATRICK MARKEE This week New York lost a genuinely remarkable woman, Anna Lou Dehavenon, who documented the lives of homeless children and families with passion, sympathy, and a never-failing eye for social injustice. Anna Lou, who was 85, passed away Tuesday after years of ..Read More
Mayor Bloomberg’s Failed Homeless Policies Are Affecting Landlords Too Posted on February 27, 2012 by GISELLE ROUTHIER In her New York Times column this week, Ginia Bellafante highlights the secondary effects of Mayor Bloomberg’s failed homeless policies– the impact on small landlords. “So rarely a figure of sympathy in the lore of New York, the landlord ha ..Read More
Unhinged from Reality: Mayor Bloomberg Defends His Shelter Denial Plan Posted on February 23, 2012 by PATRICK MARKEE The premise behind Mayor Bloomberg’s shelter denial plan — which was fortunately blocked by a New York State Supreme Court ruling this week — has always been more than a little far-fetched and absurd. Since November, Bloomberg administratio ..Read More
Court Decision Protects Single Adults from Being Denied Shelter Posted on February 21, 2012 by GISELLE ROUTHIER Today, a court ruling declared that the Bloomberg administration violated the City’s rulemaking process when they announced they were putting in place new eligibility rules for homeless single adults back in November. The proposed eligibility rules wo ..Read More
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn Calls on Mayor to Address Homelessness Crisis Posted on February 9, 2012 by SARAH MURPHY Yesterday, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn delivered her annual State of the City address. Although she touched on many issues, she didn’t ignore the City’s current crisis of record homelessness. During her speech, she called on Mayor ..Read More
Record Homelessness in the Spotlight, But With Little Focus on the Root Cause Posted on February 6, 2012 by GISELLE ROUTHIER A story in this Sunday’s New York Times sounded all too familiar. A homeless family spends hours each day commuting to work, day care and school, all to maintain a sense of normalcy in an otherwise unstable life. This is reality for homeless mom Tonya ..Read More
DHS Announces They Will NOT Pay February Rent for Current Advantage Tenants Posted on February 3, 2012 by GISELLE ROUTHIER Update March 21, 2012: We are sorry to report that the Appellate court ruled against the plaintiffs on March 20, saying that the City does not have an obligation to continue paying Advantage rents. Updated information from the Legal Aid Society will be posted ..Read More
Discounting NYC Homelessness Posted on January 31, 2012 by PATRICK MARKEE Last night the City mobilized its annual “count” of street homeless people – a flawed exercise that has only served to misinform the public about the true scale of the homelessness crisis in New York City. As we wrote last year, and in a bri ..Read More
Homeless but not Eligible for Shelter? – The Fight to Stop the City’s Shelter Denial Rules Continues Posted on January 24, 2012 by GISELLE ROUTHIER Last Friday, the first portion of a legal fight to stop the City from implementing dangerous new shelter denial rules began. But the judge wasn’t yet looking at whether the new rules would violate the right to shelter, as established in the Callahan Co ..Read More
