Push to Boost Housing Aid for Domestic Violence Victims Posted on March 22, 2016 by Nicole Edine in New York Daily News ALBANY — The head of the city Human Resources Administration was in Albany Tuesday to lobby to include domestic violence victims in a state rental assistance program designed to prevent homelessness. Steve Banks also was pushing to raise the rental assistanc ..Read More
Inching Toward Safer Homeless Shelters Posted on March 18, 2016 by Nicole Edine in NYTimes No doubt about it: The crime statistics in New York City look rosy. But Mayor Bill de Blasio is not in a good position to boast — not when people are living on the streets and subways because they don’t want to be robbed, stabbed, beaten or killed in homel ..Read More
Unsafe Haven: How Violence and Drugs at City Homeless Shelters Flew Under the Radar Posted on March 19, 2016 by Nicole Edine in NY1 We have been examining violence and drugs saturated city homeless shelters all week. In the final piece of our series, Unsafe Haven, we look at how these reports flew under the radar for so long. How will the city make sure it doesn’t happen again? NY1&# ..Read More
A Farewell to the Dog Who Helped Him Off the Streets Posted on March 18, 2016 by Nicole Edine in NYTimes Raymond Goynes went uptown to see Sonja one last time on March 8, a sunny Tuesday morning. He let himself into her owner’s penthouse duplex in Hell’s Kitchen. Sonja, an 11-year-old wheaten terrier, was sprawled on the wool kilim rug in the living room. Her ..Read More
Banks, Armed With Data, Says City Homelessness Programs are Working Posted on March 15, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Politico New York The web of new subsidy and rental assistance programs City Hall has put in place since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office to help homeless New Yorkers get out of shelters and into permanent housing is showing signs of sputtering to life, Human Resources Administ ..Read More
New York City is Upgrading Security at Its Homeless Shelters Posted on March 15, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Associated Press New York City will re-establish a domestic violence program in homeless shelters as part of broader efforts to upgrade security at the facilities, where family incidents are the most common form of violence, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. The New York Poli ..Read More
Brooklyn Landlords Run From State Investigators: “They’ve Had This Coming” Posted on March 10, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gothamist A notorious landlord and homeless shelter operator is resisting turning over documents to state investigators who say they have “direct evidence” that he and his relatives and business associates may be harassing tenants, skimping on maintenance, a ..Read More
New York City Council Backs Affordable Housing Plan Posted on March 14, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times A proposal by Mayor Bill de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle on Monday, emerging from a City Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan fo ..Read More
Cities Across U.S. Slash Homelessness for Veterans Posted on March 14, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Boston Globe Perched on a Spartan bed with a simple metal frame, a tiny bathroom only a few feet away, 61-year-old George Gisoldi beams as he surveys his shoebox-size domain. The disabled Air Force veteran is no longer homeless. “I have a home to go to. I have a place to ..Read More
