What Happens When the Largest City in the U.S. Decides to End Veteran Homelessness? Posted on August 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Think Progress The phone rings just as Katrina Fingerson and Latoya McClary are about to leave to start their shift at the Goddard Riverside Community Center. It comes in on the line reserved for the 311 calls from concerned citizens and businesses who report homeless people ..Read More
Domestic Abuse is a Leading Cause of Homelessness, But New NYC Program May Bring Some Relief Posted on August 18, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Associated Press When Karen finally decided to leave a husband who had been abusing her for years, she found out that fleeing was the easy part. She and her little boy spent the next three years homeless, in and out of shelters, because she couldn’t afford New York City ..Read More
Advocates Urge Action, Not Shaming, for Homeless New Yorkers Posted on August 18, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Observer Advocates took to the City Hall steps today to demand action to help the homeless—and bashing the Sergeants Benevolent Association and the media outlets for vilifying people on the street. The rally comes after weeks of coverage of homeless people on the str ..Read More
NYC Pols Blast Cop Union’s Photo Campaign for ‘Shaming’ Homeless People Posted on August 18, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News City pols and advocates slammed a police union campaign to publicize photos of people living on the streets, saying it demonizes the homeless. The Sergeants Benevolent Association launched the online photo blitz last week, urging members and their friends and ..Read More
The Government Just Said it’s Unconstitutional to do This to the Homeless Posted on August 14, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Mic Over half a million people are homeless on any given night in the United States. Among them, close to a third spent the night outside of shelters, often exposed to the elements under bridges or on park benches. Due to laws passed explicitly to prevent the home ..Read More
Spousal Abuse: The ‘Silent Illness’ Driving Women Into Homelessness Posted on August 14, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Al Jazeera America There were little red flags that could have prevented Nina Sucre from spending New Year’s Eve in a New York City homeless shelter — an initial stay that was followed by months of 2014 spent in sleeping in trains, churches and a 24-hour McDonald’s. A cut ..Read More
Is a NYC Labor Union for Police Officers ‘Homeless Shaming’? Posted on August 16, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in MSNBC The Sergeants Benevolent Association is encouraging officers, along with their friends and family members, to take pictures of homeless New Yorkers and post them online. Christy Parque, Cornell William Brooks, Akhil Reed Amar, and Jeanne Theoharis discuss this ..Read More
Homeless Solutions Instead of Homeless Shaming Posted on August 14, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Gotham Gazette On Monday, Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) Chair Ed Mullins sent a memo to SBA members, urging them, their friends and family members, and “the silent majority of New Yorkers, to get more involved” and hold our elected City officials accountable. He ..Read More
NYPD Union Took Photos of Homeless to Shame Mayor Posted on August 14, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Huffington Post The NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association posted photos of homeless people on Flickr in an attempt to document “a city in decline” due to Mayor de Blasio’s leadership. Have the police gone too far in an attempt to make a political sta ..Read More
