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Category: News

Program That Helps Homeless Get Housing Threatened By State Cuts

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in NY1News
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Strong Economy for All Coalition presses for continuing the millionaire’s tax

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in United Federation of Teachers
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Families in Mayor Bloomberg’s Advantage apartment plan often end up back in shelters

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in New York Daily News
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Homeless children: the hard times generation

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in 60 Minutes
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Morrisania residents are fed up as new 200-bed homeless shelter set to open

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in New York Daily News
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Homeless New Yorker reunites with his daughter after 11 years thanks to Twitter

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in New York Daily News
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City’s Rent Regulation Battle Already Brewing

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in NY1News
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East Siders Help Homeless While Fighting their Shelter

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in DNAinfo
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At St. Brigid’s, a Life Lost, Though Not Unknown

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Avonna Zheng in New York Times
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