How to Register to Vote in the Upcoming NYC Primary, Even if You’re Homeless Posted on August 9, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Brooklyn Daily Eagle Don’t Delay: Deadline is Aug. 18 The Tuesday, Sept. 12 primary is an important one in Brooklyn, with candidates for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, Brooklyn borough president, Brooklyn district attorney and a number of City Council members appearing on ..Read More
This Non-Profit Is Changing the Stigma About New York’s Homeless Population Posted on August 4, 2017 by Nicole Edine in Vice Tonight, over 61,000 people in New York City will fall asleep in a municipal shelter. Of those, roughly 15,000 are single adults, with an approximate ratio of one female for every three males; 15,200 are families of primarily female-led households, including ..Read More
Advocates Charge NYPD Cops Swoop in to Bust Homeless Shelter Residents on Old Warrants Posted on August 3, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Homeless advocates slammed the NYPD’s sweeps of homeless shelters to nab residents with open arrest warrants. Advocates charge that at least seven times this year, cops have showed up at shelters to make arrests. “It is a waste of time. It is a waste of po ..Read More
The Cities Where Rent Hikes Leave the Most People Homeless Posted on August 3, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Bloomberg When the rent rises 5 percent in Atlanta, another 83 people become homeless. In New York, about 3,000 do. In a new study, Zillow compared its own estimates for median rent increases in major U.S. cities with homelessness data published by the U.S. Department o ..Read More
Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis Posted on July 28, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Review of Books New York City is in the throes of a humanitarian emergency, a term defined by the Humanitarian Coalition of large international aid organizations as “an event or series of events that represents a critical threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing ..Read More
It’s Time to Put an End to NYPD Homeless Sweeps Posted on July 27, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in City and State Last Monday, at the crack of dawn, the New York Police Department and other local law enforcement stormed into a Washington Heights homeless shelter for people with mental health issues on a warrant raid. The officers waved tasers and shouted threats, scaring ..Read More
Right To Counsel a Victory for New York City Tenants Posted on July 20, 2017 by Nicole Edine in City & State Every elected official knows constituents whose stories they will never forget. One of the most lasting for me is of a woman – I’ll call her Maria – who came to my office in tears after receiving an eviction order. She had been injured stepping on a brok ..Read More
City Expands Services as More Become Homeless, Even With a Job Posted on July 19, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Between intermittent drizzle and drenching downpours, social workers climbed an embankment just off what they called the “zigzag” — an entanglement of roads and exits from the Henry Hudson Parkway and Riverside Drive in northern Manhattan. They were look ..Read More
City Council Set to Vote on Bill to Guarantee Legal Counsel to New York City Tenants Facing Eviction Posted on July 12, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News The City Council will vote next week to guarantee access to a lawyer in housing court for New Yorkers facing eviction, after reaching a deal on the particulars with Mayor de Blasio, one of the bill’s main sponsors told the Daily News. The Council and the may ..Read More
