De Blasio to Commit $30M to Address Growing Homeless Student Population Posted on April 26, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Politico Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce steps to tackle the city’s large and growing homeless student population on Tuesday, with a $30 million commitment to build health centers in schools with large numbers of homeless students and to provide new supports t ..Read More
‘This is Beautiful’: After 16 Months in a Shelter, New York Family Finds a Home Posted on April 25, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Guardian In late December, three days after Christmas, Shakira Crawford left her three children with her neighbor at a homeless shelter in East New York and rushed into the night to look at an apartment. “I’m excited,” she said, exuding her usual cheerfulness, de ..Read More
The State of New York City Rent Affordability in 2016 Posted on April 21, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in StreetEasy New data provides quantitative evidence of the widening gap between what New York City households can afford and what they are likely to find in the city’s increasingly expensive and competitive private rental marketplace. According to StreetEasy’s annual ..Read More
Council Members, Banks Discuss 90-Day Review’s Impact on Nonprofits Posted on April 22, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in City & State Amid the largest restructuring of city homeless services in decades, members of the city council’s Committee on General Welfare pressed Steven Banks, commissioner of the newly minted Department of Social Services, on the impact that his agency’s sweeping r ..Read More
Right to Counsel in Housing Court: The Bottom Line Posted on April 18, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Huffington Post A new report, which finds that New York City would save hundreds of millions of dollars a year by providing a right to counsel for tenants facing eviction, has added new urgency and optimism to a campaign to pass a bill that would establish such a right. The b ..Read More
The Best Non-Profits for Helping the Homeless Posted on April 19, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Time Out New York More than 60,000 people are homeless in New York right now, according to the Coalition for Homeless—and more than a third of those in need of shelter are children. Need a primer on how to help quell this epidemic? We’ve rounded up some of the city’s top ..Read More
The Countless Ways Poverty Affects People’s Health Posted on April 20, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in U.S. News & World Report Poverty’s harsh effects on health start before babies are born and pile up throughout their adult lives. With stressed-filled homes, shaky nutrition, toxic environments and health-care gaps of every kind, kids in very low-income families may never catch ..Read More
New York City Council to Review 5 Bills Reining in ‘Three-Quarter’ Homes Posted on April 18, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Five bills will be introduced in the New York City Council on Wednesday that aim to tackle the problem of unregulated flophouses catering to addicts, people with mental illnesses and others who are trying to avoid homeless shelters. The flophouses, known as ..Read More
Among Travelers and Commuters, the Homeless Stop In and Stay Posted on April 18, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Wilson Silva said he knew the homeless situation at Pennsylvania Station had grown “out of hand” when he found a man in raggedy clothing sleeping on a couch inside the shop he manages, Drago Shoe Repair, in the rail terminal’s upper level. “There’s m ..Read More
