City Hall Shake-Up on Homeless Posted on December 15, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Wall Street Journal New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered a top-to-bottom review of the city’s bureaucracy to address homelessness following the resignation Tuesday of the Department of Homeless Services commissioner. The move, which comes about three months after the depa ..Read More
Queens Housing Demand to Surge in 2016 as Brooklyn Remains Most Unaffordable Borough Posted on December 15, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in AMNewYork As New Yorkers continue the eternal struggle with high rents in Manhattan and Brooklyn, they’re increasingly setting their sights on Queens, according to a report. Demand in the borough is set to rise in 2016, according to real estate site StreetEasy, with J ..Read More
Homeless Struggling to Find Takers for Rent Voucher Program Posted on December 15, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in WABC-TV The New York City housing voucher program is designed to get homeless people off the streets, but an Eyewitness News investigation has uncovered that it not easing the problem. It allows homeless people to use vouchers to rent an apartment, much like food stam ..Read More
Homeless, but Determined to Reclaim Her American Dream Posted on December 15, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC Meet Shakira Crawford, 39, and her three kids, ages 8 to 13. She emigrated from Jamaica as a child, became a U.S. citizen in New York, and graduated from high school in the Bronx. She now works full-time at a Manhattan hotel earning $17,000 a year. She’s a s ..Read More
Cluster Housing for Homeless That are Heavily Scrutinized Get $200 Million From City Posted on December 13, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Crain's New York Business Advocates for affordable housing hate it. The mayor’s own chief investigator called for it to be cut back. But so-called cluster housing for the homeless is about to get another $200 million from the de Blasio administration, which is proposing contracts tha ..Read More
NYC Bets Big on ‘Supportive Housing’ to Curb Homelessness Posted on December 14, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Associated Press The scene of neighbors hanging holiday decorations at their tidy Bronx apartment building was nothing remarkable, except to the people doing it. Like everyone else at Haven Apartments, they had been homeless and mentally ill. And now they have their own apartm ..Read More
The ‘Model Minority’ Myth: Why Asian-American Poverty Goes Unseen Posted on December 14, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Mashable From when he was a baby until he was 14 years old, Suhail Ahmed lived with his parents and older brother in a one-bedroom apartment in Queens. “It was rough,” Ahmed said. “We’ve always ended up getting what we needed, we’ve always got the ..Read More
NYer of the Week: Tavis Eaton, Founder of Hoodies for the Homeless Posted on December 11, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in NY1 Our New Yorker of the Week is using the power of music to warm the hearts of people who are homeless, as NY1’s John Schiumo reports. Tavis Eaton is a singer who’s leading a movement beyond song. For Tavis, being a front man is also about using his voic ..Read More
What it’s Really Like to be Homeless During the Holidays Posted on December 11, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Cosmopolitan People become homeless in myriad ways and have vastly different experiences with homelessness depending on their location, health, and connections. This is one in a series of interviews with homeless women about their personal experiences. At the age of 30, Ma ..Read More
