Landlords Fined $33K by City After Rejecting Tenant With Housing Voucher Posted on April 5, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in DNAinfo A Brooklyn management company was fined $33,000 by the City Commission on Human Rights after leaving a 74-year-old woman homeless for two months by illegally rejecting her housing voucher, according to court documents. The commission last week fined the landlo ..Read More
With Federal Budget Cuts Looming, Cuomo Must Step Up to Fund Housing Posted on March 31, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Slant Gov. Andrew Cuomo called President Trump’s 2018 budget outline “dangerous, reckless, and insulting to New York values.” In particular, the governor highlighted the disastrous impact the proposed budget cuts would have on affordable housing and community ..Read More
Can Andrew Cuomo Really Deliver on His Housing Promises? Posted on March 30, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Lab With their state mired in a historic homeless crisis and budget negotiations underway in Albany, low-income New Yorkers and housing advocates are urging Governor Andrew Cuomo to back up various press releases, State of the State addresses and previous budget p ..Read More
Faith Leaders Call on NY to Help People Pay the Rent Posted on March 30, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Syracuse As clergy in every community, we know its very hard to offer pastoral care to people who near homelessness. It’s tough to console people whose high rent forces them to choose between eating, affording a reliable car, dealing with unaffordable child care ..Read More
Bringing Health Care to the Streets, But For How Much Longer? Posted on March 28, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Politico There wasn’t much of a description to go on: A black woman in her 50s with one dread down to her waist. She was supposed to have a shopping cart that contained her belongings. She was likely somewhere around Harlem Hospital. Bonnie Coover, a family nurse pra ..Read More
Fighting Homelessness: A Different Approach Posted on March 24, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in NY1 As Mayor de Blasio pushes his plan for 90 new homeless shelters, Errol Louis spoke with Queens Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi about a different plan to fight the crisis. ..Read More
New York Has Record Numbers of Homeless People Posted on March 23, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Economist Since 1979, when a homeless veteran of the Korean war successfully sued the city for failing to provide him with shelter, the city has had a legal duty to house those unable to afford a home. (New York’s state constitution says that “the aid, care and supp ..Read More
95 Faith Leaders Join Push for Passage of State Rent Subsidy Proposal Posted on March 24, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gotham Gazette As New York City battles a homelessness crisis, with 60,000 people in shelters, a statewide proposal to drastically reduce and prevent homelessness is gaining groundswell support. On Monday, dozens of faith leaders from across the state signed a letter to Gove ..Read More
Will Trump Make NYC Homelessness Worse? Posted on March 23, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Queens Chronicle President Trump’s 2018 federal budget recommendations, released last Thursday, include deep cuts to programs geared toward aiding low-income, urban, elderly and storm-ravaged citizens, sparking fear and fury across the city about what they would mean for the ..Read More
