Mayor de Blasio Scrambles to Curb Homelessness After Years of Not Keeping Pace Posted on January 13, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times During Mayor Bill de Blasio’s first year in office, the Department of Homeless Services created 16 new shelters across New York City to house more than a thousand families and hundreds of single adults. Then, for eight months, the city stopped opening shelte ..Read More
Gleaming New Airports Won’t Help Homeless New Yorkers Posted on January 11, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Slant It was a stark contrast at the Midtown Hilton last week: Inside the grand ballroom New York’s business and political elites were convened at an Association for a Better New York lunch listening to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He was pitching his $100 billion infrastru ..Read More
NYC Moves Homeless Out of Shelters at Peak Rate Under de Blasio, But Newcomers Keep Figures at Record High: Report Posted on January 11, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News The city is getting the homeless out of shelters and into long-term housing at far greater rates under Mayor de Blasio — but so many people are coming into the system that its numbers are still at record highs, according to a new report. The good-news-bad-ne ..Read More
Cuomo’s Big Speech is Short on Housing Posted on January 9, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Crain's New York Business Gov. Andrew Cuomo made scant reference to affordable housing Monday in his first of six State of the State speeches, as the $2 billion he promised as part of last year’s address remains mired in Albany gridlock. In last year’s edition of the speech ..Read More
Mayor de Blasio Approves of Pol’s Plan to Address NYC’s Homeless Crisis Posted on January 9, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Mayor de Blasio has given a qualified thumbs up to a plan to address the homeless crisis that is gaining bipartisan support in the state Legislature. Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Queens) has been pushing the Home Stability Support program that is intended to r ..Read More
Queens Assemblyman’s Plan to Address Homeless Crisis Gains Bipartisan Support Posted on January 6, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News A Queens state assemblyman’s plan to address the homeless crisis is gaining bipartisan steam in both houses of the Legislature. Andrew Hevesi has been pushing a plan, first reported by the Daily News in September, that he calls the Home Stability Support ..Read More
Past Time to Help the Homeless Posted on January 2, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone in Newsday It’s been almost a year since Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo promised $2 billion toward affordable and supportive housing. His plan included 6,000 permanent housing units across the state for those who are homeless and need additional services. The promises have yet t ..Read More
Who’s Afraid of NYC’s Homeless Hotels? Posted on December 23, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits A homeless 52-year-old woman described the boutique Manhattan hotel room where she lives with her two grandkids as clean but tiny. Frances Ramos said the city Department of Homeless Services placed her family at The MAve Hotel in late October. The narrow, 11-f ..Read More
What the Homeless Really Need Posted on December 22, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Every night, more than 62,000 people sleep in our shelters, on our streets or in our subway system. This means there are more homeless people in New York City than at any time since the Great Depression. It is an epidemic we must face with the full force of ou ..Read More
