Category: News

How much money do Americans need to maintain a modest standard of living, where families don’t struggle to put food on the table or pay the rent? In most large U.S. cities, meeting that basic level of economic security requires income that’s far be ..Read More

The photo shows a tiny blonde woman sitting on the sidewalk in front of a newsstand, wearing combat boots and striped blue-and-white socks pulled over her ankles. A dog is sleeping beside her, partly obscuring a sign that reads, “Anything helps.” N ..Read More

This morning, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough insisted that NYC has gone back into the bad old days, parroting the counterfactual narrative dished out by the tabloids in the dog days of summer. “Have we noticed what’s happened to the city? The homeles ..Read More

Eight months after homelessness hit a record in New York City, you can still see the need of the city’s most vulnerable in Tompkins Square Park. “Good morning! Two pieces?” asks Mario Cornejo, as he places slices of frosted banana bread on pa ..Read More

As is his wont, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has recently taken a keen interest in muscling his way into New York City issues. Cuomo demonstrated his crisis-management acumen by elbowing Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city Department of Health to take control of a Legionna ..Read More

This week is the annual conference of the Community Action Partnership, the national trade association representing the more than 1,000 local community action agencies that are the inheritors and guardians of our nation’s commitment to the War on Poverty. Th ..Read More

While “The Rent Is Too Damn High” Party launched a few years ago as little more than a minor political party’s cry of protest, that phrase has since become de rigeur in serious discussions about affordable housing. On average, New York City residents ..Read More

For every 10,000 Americans, about 20 have no place to live. Across the country, that homeless population would be big enough to fill the 51st state. In good economic times and bad, the number of homeless remains difficult to push down. Courtney Kealy examines ..Read More

Are more people homeless in New York City than ever before? For many weeks the New York Post and other media have been running stories about people experiencing homelessness in the city, using increased homelessness as a measure of declining “quality of ..Read More