Dept. of Homeless Services Shelters Families in Vermin-Infested Sites Plagued by Health, Safety Code Violations: Report Posted on March 12, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News The city is sending homeless families to vermin-infested shelters plagued by fire, health and safety code violations for which taxpayers are paying crazy rent that’s sometimes triple the going rate, a Department of Investigation probe has found. The report f ..Read More
Rats and Rot: NYC Report Rips Family Homeless Shelters Posted on March 12, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Associated Press One family of six was living in a homeless-shelter apartment where a dead rat festered on the floor for two days. Another family had no living-room furniture and had been without electricity for days. At a different homeless family shelter, a puddle of urine s ..Read More
NYC Outreach Program has Moved Nearly 30% of Subway Stations’ ‘Chronic Homeless’ Into Shelters Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News An unprecedented city outreach program has amassed a caseload of nearly 1,000 “chronic homeless” who took up residency in subway stations and trains, the Daily News has learned. Social workers and clinicians in the program have convinced 261 of these hardc ..Read More
NYC’s Homeless Turning to LaGuardia Airport for Safe Shelter Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Pix11 To the casual observer, Rick could easily pass as just another traveler as he takes a break at LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B food court. But Rick knows there is no boarding pass in his immediate future. In fact, long after you have gone to sleep for the nig ..Read More
After the Tension: Is a Homeless Shelter a Threat? Posted on March 11, 2015 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in NYCity Lens Greenpoint residents had resisted the idea of shelter built in their midst, but some find the reality to be harmless. ..Read More
NYC’s Record Homeless Population Seeks Shelter at LaGuardia Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Bloomberg Business Volunteers of America, which has offices at LaGuardia and JFK, counted a monthly average of 45 chronic homeless people at LaGuardia in 2014, an 80 percent increase over the average month in 2011. On the coldest nights, as many as 50 took refuge at LaGuardia in ..Read More
NY’s Homeless Population Hits Record High as Poverty Explodes in America Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Epoch Times The homeless population in the nation’s largest city has exploded to an all-time high, forcing officials to provide shelter to desperate families in dilapidated tenements that have been identified by housing authorities as dangerous. ..Read More
To Human Traffickers, Runaway & Homeless Youth Are Walking Prey Posted on March 5, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Huffington Post It is hard to think of a more despicable crime than the buying and selling of other human beings, especially children. Yet we know that it is happening right here in America, every day. Each year, thousands of children are bought and sold for sex. That should ..Read More
America’s homeless children Posted on March 2, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone in Deutsche Welle The second-richest country in the world is failing to provide a roof over the heads of some 2.5 million children. In New York alone, about 20,000 people live on the street, in the shadows of skyscrapers. Dallas, Aliyah and their parents are staying in a shelte ..Read More
