City Bears Financial Burden of Housing Homeless Single Adults Alone, Report Finds Posted on October 15, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Observer New York City bears the cost of housing homeless single adults almost entirely on its own, a shift from the recent past, in which the state shouldered a much larger share of the burden, a new report from the Independent Budget Office finds. The funding decreas ..Read More
New York City Takes on Evictions Posted on October 16, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Marketplace Walter Simpson calls the framed family pictures that decorate his living room wall, the “wall of fame.” There’s his niece, his mom, and an aunt who has since passed away. Simpson has lived in a two-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn ..Read More
Interactive 3D Artwork Visualizes the Tragic Affordable Housing Crisis in New York City Posted on October 16, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Fusion Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, a designer and programmer by trade. He created his interactive art piece, “Wage Islands” by using the median monthly housing cost data in New York City, sourced from the American Community survey. Wage Islands is simple, yet dazz ..Read More
De Blasio Holds First Townhall Meeting of Mayoralty in Manhattan, Talks Rent and Affordable Housing Posted on October 15, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Nearly two years after taking office, Mayor de Blasio held what his office billed as the first traditional townhall meeting of his mayoralty Wednesday — but its format had some critics accusing him of hosting a political pep rally. About 250 people attended ..Read More
New York’s Rich Live 11 Years Longer Than its Poor Posted on October 14, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Yahoo News New York is a city of extreme inequality, where people in the poorest neighborhood of Brooklyn die 11 years earlier than those living around Wall Street, according to data released Wednesday. The city unveiled health statistics from across Brooklyn, one of New ..Read More
NYPD Destroyed Birth Certificates, Medication, IDs in East Harlem Homeless Raid Posted on October 13, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gothamist On the evening of October 1st, as the temperature dipped into the 50s and a steady rain began to fall, Floyd Parks and a few other homeless men and women sought shelter under the overhang at Choir Academy, a public school in East Harlem. The rain was still fal ..Read More
He Fought City Hall Over the Homeless. Now He’s Battling From the Inside Posted on October 9, 2015 by Nicole Edine in The New York Times Late this summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio assembled a group of advocates for homeless people at City Hall; it was time for damage control — again. The homeless issue was continuing to spiral out of control: the number in New York City shelters was stuck stubbor ..Read More
New York City Apartments are Getting Even More Crowded Posted on October 6, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in CityLab Apartment overcrowding both stems from and feeds into New York City’s affordable housing crisis, according to a new report by the city comptroller’s office. The report finds an alarming rise in the share of overcrowded housing units from 2005 to 2013. Here ..Read More
Homeless Shelter Residents Say Landlords are Refusing Their City Rent Vouchers Posted on October 7, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in CBS New York The latest battle to get homeless people off the streets has pitted those in shelters against their potential landlords. As CBS2’s Jessica Schneider reported, a city program that literally gives free rent money to the homeless is being scoffed at by apartmen ..Read More
