How de Blasio Could Make New York City Better for Women and Mothers Posted on January 17, 2014 by admin in RH Reality Check After 12 years of the Bloomberg administration, the reins of New York City have officially switched to Mayor Bill de Blasio. De Blasio, who has promised a “fairer, more progressive” city, certainly has his hands full as he begins to lay out his agenda for ..Read More
Searching for the homeless, NYC’s most vulnerable in bone-chilling cold Posted on January 8, 2014 by admin in PIX11 The Coalition For The Homeless can serve as many as 900 people on any give night. In Midtown, the volunteers in the Coalition gathered in the brutal cold. We went along as they stopped first along the FDR with people already waiting in line for stew, milk and ..Read More
‘All Hands On Deck’ To Help NYC Homeless In Cold Snap Posted on January 7, 2014 by admin in Here & Now In New York’s Central Park, the temperatures fell to 4 degrees this morning, breaking a record set in 1896. Cold-sensitive animals like the zebras and giraffe have been taken indoors at city zoos. Officials have declared a code blue emergency. ..Read More
NYC homeless advocates cheer Mayor de Blasio’s ‘code blue’ shelter policy Posted on January 5, 2014 by admin in New York Daily News Under the previous administration, a family that had been denied shelter would be turned away from a city shelter even on a very cold night, if the temperature dropped below 32 degrees for more than four hours. That changed with de Blasio. ..Read More
Hamill: NYC’s homeless find relief in Mayor de Blasio’s cold-weather shelter guarantee Posted on January 5, 2014 by admin in New York Daily News The new mayor has inherited the largest homeless population in the city’s history, with 50,000 people in shelters, all of whom must pass through a South Bronx intake center to seek benefits — which makes it difficult for them to find a job. ..Read More
I, too, am one of the estimated 22,000 homeless children in New York Posted on January 1, 2014 by admin in The Guardian I used to dread it when people at school asked me where I live or if we could hang out at my place. I would try to give my schoolmates a general response, maybe the name of a neighborhood, but they always pressed for more. I’ve been homeless on and off f ..Read More
Shelters Fill as Rent Aid Disappears Posted on December 27, 2013 by admin in Wall Street Journal ..Read More
Fuera de la realidad ante los desamparados Posted on December 23, 2013 by admin in El Diario ..Read More
