Category: News

Low-income Americans are experiencing a staggering price hike in housing costs — a change that makes it sometimes impossible to afford basic necessities. A new Pew Charitable Trusts analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that in 2013, low ..Read More

A flood of poor defendants representing themselves — often ineffectively — in dire cases involving eviction, foreclosure, child custody and involuntary commitment has led to a push in legislatures to expand rights to free lawyers in certain civil proceedin ..Read More

Are you saving for retirement? If not, you might want to start considering it: about one in five New Yorkers over the age of 65 is living in poverty. For our ongoing initiative “Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity and America,” we look at the growin ..Read More

As New York City and state officials fight in public over the best policy prescriptions for helping the city manage its homeless population, another battle is taking place in court. In late December last year, the Legal Aid Society, which was run for years by ..Read More

Here’s some news we can all wave the flag about. The city’s ongoing efforts to end veteran homelessness are getting a $750,000 boost from the private sector, officials will announce Monday. The much-needed money largely stems from two massive donations ..Read More

Struggling with poverty is hard enough on its own, but many of America’s poor now face an array of costs that wealthier citizens often don’t incur. Take the rise of for-profit probation companies, which more than 1,000 courts across the U.S. use. T ..Read More

On East 11th Street between Avenues B and C in New York City’s East Village, the line for the Father’s Heart food pantry wraps around the block. On cold winter days, people bundle up in puffer coats to hold their place; they might be outside, standing stil ..Read More

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio scored a big win for his affordable housing plan on Tuesday when the City Council approved controversial zoning changes. But that was after protesters disrupted a roll call vote on two measures – Mandatory Inclusionary Hous ..Read More

At least 212 homeless people, including seven infants under the age of one year, died in New York City from a variety of causes included drug overdoses, heart failure, and exposure to the cold during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2015. The statistics ..Read More