A tale of two New York Cities: I was rich, my brother was down and out Posted on October 24, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in The Guardian It is the city of dreams and cinema cliches, but also of poverty, soaring rents and inequality. The divide between rich and poor has never been greater, as John Freeman discovered when his brother Tim moved into a homeless shelter a few blocks from his smart a ..Read More
Ambitious Call for De Blasio, Cuomo to Build Supportive Housing Posted on October 23, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in City Limits The Campaign 4 NY/NY Housing is vying for 30,000 units to be built in both the city and state over the next ten years, with projects starting in 2016. ..Read More
DHS head facing tough challenges in first year Posted on October 23, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in Queens Chronicle DHS Commissioner Gilbert Taylor, in a sitdown interview with Chronicle staff on Thursday, said he and the agency are both proactively and reactively dealing with the city’s homelessness crisis the best it can in their first year in office. ..Read More
More Cities Are Making It Illegal To Hand Out Food To The Homeless Posted on October 22, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in New York Now According to a report released Monday by the National Coalition for the Homeless, 21 cities have passed measures aimed at restricting the people who feed the homeless since January 2013. The measures that restrict food distribution tend to take one of two form ..Read More
Investigation will help NYC homeless shelters Posted on October 22, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in Washington Square News Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced that child safety and domestic violence in homeless shelters will be reviewed in response to the death of 3-year-old Jeida Torres. The homeless rate in New York City has become an increasingly pressing issue. It has reac ..Read More
New York City Studying Child Safety at Shelters After a Death Posted on October 20, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in The New York Times If there was any sign that Jeida Torres was in danger, it went unreported, and none of New York’s systems put in place to protect children from harm had been alerted, according to city and law enforcement officials. ..Read More
Mayor: Business growth demands affordable housing Posted on October 21, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in Capital Mayor Bill de Blasio sought on Tuesday to connect his progressive values to the needs of industry, telling thousands of executives at a global real estate conference that New York’s business growth demands solutions to ensure everyone can find a place to cal ..Read More
Housing First: the ‘counterintuitive’ method for solving urban homelessness Posted on October 20, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in The Guardian Despite the global recession, homelessness in cities around the world is falling. Can a controversial strategy to give homeless people a roof first – that is, before addressing drug abuse or mental health – take the credit? ..Read More
Why Don’t More Businesses Donate Excess Food? Posted on October 21, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena in TriplePundit The City Harvest truck made its final stop for that morning at one of the satellite offices for Coalition for the Homeless. This was food that in another time and another day would have found its way to the landfill and would have caused a lot more harm than ..Read More
