Hundreds of Homeless Students Get Bus Service Posted on January 28, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in NBC New York Two months after the I-Team first reported on a lack of school buses for many of the city’s homeless children, five-year-old Christiana and her siblings got a big yellow surprise last week: a bus to carry them from their Brooklyn homeless shelter to school. ..Read More
In a Gay-Friendly Age, Poor LGBT New Yorkers Still Struggle Posted on January 29, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Nation Our society’s image of the gay urban dweller is often white, educated, and financially comfortable. But despite the patina of social progress, there’s a tale of two cities for queer New York, too. In a comprehensive needs assessment of the city’s LGBT po ..Read More
Here’s How You Can Help Homeless New Yorkers After the Blizzard Posted on January 26, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in Huffington Post For most of us, the worst part of the blizzard was mild cabin fever. But for homeless people, it was potentially life-threatening. When you don’t know where you’re going to sleep at night, that issue is aggravated by extreme weather conditions that ..Read More
Survey Shows 200,000 New York Seniors on Waiting Lists for Subsidized Housing Posted on January 27, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News In a sad sign of the city’s housing crisis, a disturbing new survey estimates a whopping 200,000 low-income New York senior citizens are stuck on waiting lists for subsidized housing — with an average wait of seven long years. Some of the seniors, who are ..Read More
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
