More Than 500,000 People Homeless in the United States: Report Posted on November 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Reuters More than 500,000 people – a quarter of them children – were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released on Thursday. The report, from the U.S. Department of Housin ..Read More
Tackling the Homeless Crisis, Without Mr. Cuomo Posted on November 20, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced a plan to create 15,000 “supportive housing” apartments for chronically homeless New Yorkers. He says he is seriously ramping up the city’s response to a crisis that he promised to fix, but that has gotten wors ..Read More
NYC Announces $2.6 Billion Investment to Fight Homelessness Posted on November 18, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced a massive $2.6 billion housing investment to help New York City’s homeless, declaring that the city would not wait for New York state’s help in combating a growing crisis that has dominated headlines and ..Read More
De Blasio Moves First on ‘Supportive Housing,’ Challenging Cuomo Posted on November 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Politico New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday he could no longer wait for the state of New York to hash out a deal to build new housing for the homeless and mentally ill. After months of negotiations between the de Blasio administration and Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned sour ..Read More
Alec Baldwin and Richard Gere are Honored at Artwalk NY Posted on November 18, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Vogue With the Metropolitan Pavilion transformed into a sleek Chelsea gallery space and work from Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Holzer, and Glenn Ligon up for grabs, Artwalk NY provided a tony tribute to the tireless work of New York’s Coalition for the Homeless. ..Read More
Richard Gere, Alec Baldwin, and Other Stars Turn Out for Artwalk Charity Auction in NYC Posted on November 18, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Architectural Digest Working at a publication like Architectural Digest, for which the job at hand is to ruminate on design matters of the home, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that not everyone has one. But in New York City alone, there are over 59,000 people staying in ..Read More
Richard Gere and Alec and Hilaria Baldwin Honored at Artwalk 2015 Posted on November 18, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in WWD “Fifty thousand dollars. Let’s start at $50,000 for Richard Gere,” said Alec Baldwin Tuesday night at Coalition for the Homeless’ annual Artwalk benefit sponsored by Tiffany & Co. Baldwin, one of the evening’s philanthropic honorees, along with h ..Read More
New York City Plans $3 Billion Homelessness Effort Posted on November 17, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Wall Street Journal New York City, in what will mark the single biggest investment of the de Blasio administration to fight homelessness, plans to create 15,000 additional units of housing that will be paired with social-service support, an initiative estimated to cost about $3 b ..Read More
Electing to Ignore the Poorest of the Poor Posted on November 17, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times The first few primary debates of the presidential election season are in. We can see where the economic policy discussion is going. Republicans remain wedded to the fantasy that there is no problem tax cuts can’t fix. Democrats offer a more varied policy too ..Read More
