Advocates Continue Push for More Public Housing Units for the Homeless Posted on April 28, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Observer Politicians and activists kept up pressure on the de Blasio administration to increase its allocations of New York City Housing Authority apartments for the homeless in the face of a spiraling indigent crisis—and brandished a sheet of statistics showing that ..Read More
Cuomo Gives NYC One Week to Clean Up Homeless Shelters That Regularly Have Code Violations Posted on April 29, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Gov. Cuomo’s administration on Tuesday gave the city a week to clean up homeless shelters perenially plagued by code violations, including a Queens hotel that’s hosting a vermin colony. In a letter obtained by the Daily News, Sharon Devine, acting commissi ..Read More
NYCHA Apartments for Homeless Drop Under Bill de Blasio Posted on April 28, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Homeless New Yorkers are getting a smaller share of Housing Authority apartments under Mayor de Blasio than under previous administrations, a report to be released Tuesday found. De Blasio, who is grappling with record-high numbers of homeless people needing s ..Read More
Signs of the Homeless Posted on April 27, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in British Journal of Photography John Conn spent a summer photographing the men and women living on the streets of the Bronx, New York. Each had a sign, and a very personal story. Thomas Cox reports. “We all see the homeless – more or less – although we often do our best to look elsewhe ..Read More
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
