A day in the life of homeless vet and his family living in NYC shelter Posted on November 11, 2014 by Jay Dow in PIX 11 Six-year-old Tristan Guevera begins his day on the floor of the single room he shares with his parents at a New York City homeless shelter, eating a bowl of cereal with milk bought about an hour earlier. ..Read More
Domestic Violence Drives Up New York Shelter Population as Housing Options Are Scarce Posted on November 10, 2014 by Mireya Navarro in The New York Times First came Hurricane Sandy, which left her homeless. Then came the live-in boyfriend, who battered her. Now the 44-year-old mother of three young children is homeless again, forced into a shelter by the abuse and trapped there by poverty and the paucity of liv ..Read More
Homeless, wheelchair-bound Brooklyn teen is honor student with dreams of being a doctor Posted on November 9, 2014 by Ben Chapman in Daily News Johileny, 17, of Brooklyn, is an honor student at Juan Morel Campos Secondary School despite having lived in a homeless shelter the last four years. ..Read More
New York City’s Middle Class Is Shrinking Posted on November 5, 2014 by Megan Malloy in WNYC News A new study from the Citizens Housing Planning Council confirmed what many already knew: the number of middle-class New Yorkers has shrunk—particularly among the black middle class—while wealthy white and low-income Hispanic populations are surging. ..Read More
New York City: For Homeless Veterans, One Size Does Not Fit All Posted on November 6, 2014 in Never Another Homeless Veteran Over the past three years, New York City has witnessed a 65 percent drop in the number of homeless veterans—from 4,677 in 2011 to 1,645 in 2014. ..Read More
City Earns Recognition for Reducing Veteran Homelessness Posted on November 5, 2014 by Kristen Meriwether in Gotham Gazette While homelessness in the city continues to rise, homelessness among the city’s military veterans has decreased by 64 percent (a total of 3,032 veterans) since 2011, according to HUD’s 2014 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress. ..Read More
Homelessness Rose in New York Posted on October 30, 2014 by Tatiana Schlossberg in The New York Times The number of homeless people living on the streets and in shelters across the country fell this year, according to an annual federal survey released on Thursday. But in New York City, the homeless population continued to grow, swelling in almost every categor ..Read More
Paul Bettany on Directing His First Film and His Mission to Help the Homeless Posted on October 29, 2014 by Alexandria Symonds in The New York Times When the actor Paul Bettany set out to write and direct his first feature film, the upcoming “Shelter,” inspiration came from an unlikely source: a homeless couple who lived outside his apartment building. ..Read More
Homelessness In The World’s Largest City Just Hit A Record Low Posted on October 27, 2014 by Scott Keyes in Think Progress The number of homeless residents in New York City, the largest city in the United States, reached a record high this month at more than 56,000 people. Halfway around the world, another metropolis recently hit a homeless record of its own: just 1,697 people are ..Read More
