What Would It Take to Move Street Homeless New Yorkers into Housing? Posted on July 5, 2022 by Sarah Murphy in City Limits New York City officials have cleared a modest homeless encampment on East 9th Street at least 14 times since the start of 2022, city records show. A sweep last month may have been the most unsettling. Read more… ..Read More
‘Housing Cannot Be A Privilege’: Mayor Adams Releases Highly-Anticipated Housing Plan Posted on June 15, 2022 by Sarah Murphy in Gotham Gazette Five-and-a-half months into his administration, Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday released a comprehensive plan for housing and homelessness that aims to build new mixed-income rental housing, preserve existing affordable units, improve public housing stock, expedit ..Read More
City staffing shortages lead to months-long waits for housing help Posted on June 9, 2022 by Sarah Murphy in NY1 Velvet Johnson Ross felt she was doing everything right in her quest for a city housing voucher. She had won a lottery apartment in Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town apartment complex; she had gotten all her documents together; local elected officials were c ..Read More
Adams Announces Plan to Fix New York City’s Growing Housing Crisis Posted on June 14, 2022 by Sarah Murphy in The New York Times Mayor Eric Adams laid out a blueprint to increase homeownership, reduce street homelessness and improve public housing. But housing groups say his budget, $1 billion short of what he had promised, will not be enough… ..Read More
Here’s How NYC’s $101 Billion Budget Addresses Homelessness Posted on June 14, 2022 by Sarah Murphy in City Limits The new budget directs $2.4 billion to homeless services in the coming fiscal year, invests billions more in housing over the next decade and funds an increase to rental assistance programs, but is nevertheless facing criticism from advocates who say the spend ..Read More
City looks to end pandemic-era protections for older and some medically vulnerable homeless people Posted on June 2, 2022 by Sarah Murphy in Gothamist At a time when New York City’s COVID-19 alert level is on high, city officials are planning to end protections put in place at the start of the pandemic to curb the spread of the virus in the city’s shelter system and safeguard older homeless people as wel ..Read More
Little Being Done to Address New York’s Prison-to-Shelter Pipeline Posted on June 3, 2022 by Sarah Murphy in Gotham Gazette Two out of five people returning to New York City from prison last year were released to a shelter or another placement for homeless adults, according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). At roughly 2,050 people, i ..Read More
Records show Eric Adams visited fewer NYC homeless shelters than touted Posted on June 5, 2022 by Sarah Murphy in New York Post Mayor Eric Adams visited just three homeless shelters despite pledging to make unannounced inspections at facilities in the scandal-scarred system, The Post has learned. And only one of those surprise drop-ins is on the books, as is mandated by the s ..Read More
NYC Installs WiFi at Every Family Homeless Shelter Following Legal Settlement Posted on May 25, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in City Limits In November 2020, after months of pandemic-induced school closures and remote learning, Legal Aid and the law firm Milbank filed a lawsuit on behalf of three families with children in shelter that accused the city of violating their state constitutional right ..Read More
