Candidates Ignore New York Housing Crisis as They Campaign Before Primary Posted on April 12, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Guardian Braced against the wind whistling down her Brooklyn street in between chilly April showers, Tatiana Williams looked up at the concrete housing block ahead and wondered how much longer she would be able to carry on living there. “They are developing so much a ..Read More
Mary Brosnahan on Homelessness in New York Posted on April 12, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC Mary Brosnahan recalls a trip she took to Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the height of The Troubles: she was 16, raised in a Detroit suburb, but here she saw soldiers deployed with rifles right in the city center. The trip politicized the young Brosnahan, e ..Read More
Mayor to Streamline City Bureaucracy in Attempt to Better Help the Homeless Posted on April 11, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in NY1 After completing a 90-day review, the Mayor is rolling out a plan to improve services for homeless people. But some advocates say there are extra steps they’d like to see him take. NY1’s Lori Chung has details. “We know that we can keep peopl ..Read More
Flophouse Operator Is Arrested in a Scheme to Defraud Medicaid Posted on April 13, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times An operator of flophouses catering to addicts, who was the subject of an investigation last year by The New York Times, was arrested on Wednesday on money laundering and Medicaid fraud charges. Investigators from the New York State attorney general’s office ..Read More
The Mayor Offers Hope for the Homeless Posted on April 11, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an overhaul of New York City’s services for the homeless on Monday, the result of a 90-day review that he promised when the homelessness crisis reached a crescendo late last year. He is essentially folding the Department of Hom ..Read More
City to Focus on Prevention, Rehousing to Tackle Homelessness in NYC Posted on April 11, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Metro New York City is taking on the issue of homelessness with a new approach that aims to not only find permanent homes for those living in shelters, but also prevent New Yorkers from losing their homes in the first place. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday tha ..Read More
Advocacy Group Says Homeless Adults Need More Support Posted on April 11, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC The city’s leading advocacy group for the homeless says in its annual report that the state and the city need to do more to help homeless adults living in the city’s shelters and on the streets. “I have yet to meet a homeless person on the street who wou ..Read More
Firm to Pay AIDS Activist for Denying Him Housing Posted on April 10, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times In the 10 years since he tested positive for H.I.V., David Goode has grown weary of the stigma and the ostracism that have accompanied his diagnosis. Among the most searing rejections were those from landlords and realtors, who told him time and again they wou ..Read More
How to Solve the Housing Crisis: More Lawyers Posted on April 8, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Bloomberg In the overheated U.S. housing market, just complaining about a leaky ceiling can land you on the street. Randy Dillard was living with five kids in a four-bedroom house in the Bronx when he informed his landlord of a persistent drip. Dillard rented his $1,800 ..Read More
