Strengthen Rent Regulation Rules Amid Homeless Crisis, Task Force Urges Posted on June 20, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in DNAinfo The state’s outdated rent stabilization rules aren’t enough to stamp out the city’s soaring homeless crisis — as skyrocketing rent prices let owners drop out of the program once a vacant unit’s price hits $2,700 per month, according to a ..Read More
City Tries to Head Off Summer Surge in Homeless Posted on June 16, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times To get through the front gate at New Bridges Elementary School in Brooklyn on Friday, students and their parents had to squeeze past an unfamiliar man wearing a gray suit and rimless glasses who was handing out fliers. “Any housing challenges, we’re here t ..Read More
Here’s How Much You Would Need to Afford Rent in Your State Posted on June 8, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Washington Post There is nowhere in this country where someone working a full-time minimum wage job could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment, according to an annual report released Thursday documenting the gap between wages and the cost of rental housing. Downsizing to a ..Read More
Kids Ask De Blasio to Help Homeless Families Posted on June 7, 2017 by Nicole Edine in Brooklyn Daily Eagle Politically savvy Brooklyn fourth-graders are joining forces with the nonprofit group Coalition for the Homeless to fight for better housing conditions for their peers. On June 2, members of Kids for a Better Future (KBF) and representatives of the Coalition f ..Read More
Show HUD’s Budget Cuts the Door Posted on May 30, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, set the stage for President Scrooge’s meanspirited budget when he suggested that the government had made things too “cozy” for poor people and said that poverty was merely a “state of mind.” ..Read More
Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts Posted on May 22, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times President Trump plans to unveil on Tuesday a $4.1 trillion budget for 2018 that would cut deeply into programs for the poor, from health care and food stamps to student loans and disability payments, laying out an austere vision for reordering the nation’s p ..Read More
Under Settlement, City Shelters Will Do More for the Disabled Posted on May 18, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times New York City’s homeless services agency, under a settlement reached this week, has agreed to do more to accommodate homeless people who are disabled. The Center for Independence of the Disabled, one of the groups that filed the class-action lawsuit, counts ..Read More
Stresses of Shelter Life Rip Homeless Families Apart, Study Finds Posted on May 16, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in DNAinfo A record 23,000 children — nearly half of whom are under 6 — are now living in the city’s shelter system, and more often than not, their families are placed in shelters far from their communities, according to a new report from the Center for New Yor ..Read More
A Fresh Take on Ending the Jail-to-Street-to-Jail Cycle Posted on May 10, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Marshall Project George Washington (not the famous one) first ended up in a New York homeless shelter in the mid-1980s, after he came home from prison for robbery and crack cocaine hit the streets. Since then, he’s passed between girlfriends’ houses, hotels, shelters all o ..Read More
