NYC Spent $241M Over 5 Years to House Homeless Families in Shelters Filled With Rats, Lead Paint and Other Violations Posted on April 26, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News In the past five years, the city has spent $241 million housing homeless families in hellholes rife with a catalog of code violations from vermin to lead paint, a Daily News investigation has found. The money flowed to the operators of 24 fleabag hotels and ru ..Read More
New York’s Child Poverty Rate is Slipping, But Challenges Still Loom for City Kids Posted on April 23, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in amNewYork The well-being of New York City’s children is improving, though the five borough’s 1.8 million kids still confront profound racial, geographic and economic disparities, according to a report. “For the first time since the recession took hold ..Read More
Can New York City Actually End Veteran Homelessness This Year? Posted on April 23, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Huffington Post New York City is on track to reach its goal of ending veteran homelessness by the end of 2015, according to numbers from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office, a potentially remarkable achievement for a city with one of the largest homeless populations in the co ..Read More
The Homeless Man Who Works in the Senate Posted on April 22, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Washington Post In the basement of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, 63-year-old Charles Gladden works alongside some of the nation’s most powerful people. For eight years, he has greeted senators, staffers and lobbyists in the hallways and the cafeteria, at exclusive ban ..Read More
NYC Council Pushes Mayor to do More for the Homeless Posted on April 21, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Associated Press With New York City’s homelessness population reaching an all-time high, the City Council has urged Mayor Bill de Blasio to increase funding to programs aimed at keeping families off the city’s streets. ..Read More
Can New York City End Homelessness by 2020? Posted on April 19, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Chronicle-Independent The biggest city in America is known for bright lights and big money, but it’s also known for a problem that takes a little sheen off the Big Apple — homelessness. With 60,000 living in shelters, including 25,000 children, New York has reached its high ..Read More
Why it’s So Hard to Get Off Welfare Posted on April 16, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in PBS NewsHour Since 1996, in order to get welfare in the U.S., you have to work. The Clinton Welfare-to-Work program successfully got millions of families off the social safety net program. But today’s recipients face stagnant low wages and limited resources for job t ..Read More
Starting to Bring Homeless Kids in From the Cold Posted on April 16, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Villager Imagine sleeping on the streets this winter, one of the coldest on record. That’s been the bitter reality for hundreds of homeless children across New York State, who were turned away from shelters this year in record numbers because of overcrowding and forc ..Read More
More Pads for Homeless Women on Their Periods Posted on April 15, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Al Jazeera America Donations of women’s hygiene products at a major New York City homeless shelter for the year so far are already five times higher than for all of 2014, thanks to increased awareness among donors about the enormous obstacles faced by homeless women on their p ..Read More
