Face of NYC’s Homeless Crisis: Meet One of 3,000 on the Street Posted on January 26, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Fernando Lopez is ready to die. It’s a bitter-cold Saturday morning, just before dawn, and Lopez is trudging along Lexington Avenue, his shoulders hunched and hands jammed into his pants pockets in a determined effort to stay warm. He has been up since just ..Read More
How Health and Homelessness are Connected Medically Posted on January 25, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in National Journal Housing is so important to health that those without a home die decades younger than those with a home. While the average life expectancy in the U.S. is almost 80, chronically homeless individuals can expect to live only to th ..Read More
How New York’s Homeless Lived Through This Weekend’s Blizzard Posted on January 25, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Vice For New York City’s record-high number of homeless men, women, and children, the winter of 2015 was especially brutal. A constant barrage of snow slammed the city almost weekly, causing hundreds of those sleeping on the streets to seek refuge in “c ..Read More
New York Wants to Close the Gap Between Public Housing Residents and Wall Street Bankers Posted on January 25, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Next City Few neighborhoods are more associated with gentrification than Brooklyn’s Williamsburg. The subject of a thousand trend pieces, its transformation has been carefully charted from its days as a depressed working-class enclave for longshoremen, truck drivers a ..Read More
Easing Up on Low-Level Crimes Posted on January 22, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC The New York City Council will hear a package of bills Monday that would make summonses for low-level crimes civil – rather than criminal – offenses. This would give officers the option to charge a person civilly rather than criminally for things l ..Read More
Study: Income Inequality Greater Than Before the Great Recession Posted on January 22, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Public News Service Income inequality in the United States is higher today than before the Great Recession – and it continues to rise, according to researchers at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. The Bridgeport, Conn., area topped the list, fol ..Read More
New York City Church Offers the Homeless a New Path Posted on January 20, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Wall Street Journal On Wednesday night, about a dozen people were expected to begin a journey from homelessness to, they hope, a home. They have been offered refuge in a seasonal shelter program run by New York City’s Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Started years ago as a way ..Read More
Changes for Homeless Domestic Violence Survivors are ‘Baby Steps,’ Advocates Say Posted on January 21, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Nonprofit Media While advocates and nonprofit leaders welcomed news on Tuesday that the New York City Human Resources Administration plans to make policy adjustments in regards to its services for homeless victims of domestic violence, many said much work remains to be done, ..Read More
Poll Finds City is Not Doing Enough to Help the Homeless Posted on January 20, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in DNAinfo The city is not doing enough to help the homeless, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University. The poll found that 73 percent of voters felt the city was doing too little to help homeless people while 19 percent said the city was doing the right amount ..Read More
