‘Domino Displacement’: How Homeless Families All Over NYC Could Be Uprooted By Upper West Side Fiasco Posted on September 12, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in Gothamist The city’s plan to shuffle homeless residents around to different shelters to appease aggrieved Upper West Siders could mean that families living in a Brooklyn shelter get abruptly sent to different facilities all over the city, uprooting their kids just ..Read More
Dehumanizing the homeless must stop Posted on August 25, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in New York Daily News While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our city is complex and far-reaching, the guiding principle behind our collective response to it must remain unchanged: Do everything we can to save lives. Whatever successes we have had toward that end have been th ..Read More
What Happened When Homeless Men Moved Into a Liberal Neighborhood Posted on August 18, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in The New York Times The guests arrived at the Lucerne Hotel, two blocks from Central Park, carrying their belongings, stepping off buses and filling the hotel’s empty rooms, which typically cost more than $200 a night They were not tourists nor business travelers but residents ..Read More
Homelessness in the era of COVID-19 Posted on August 11, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in PIX11 News NEW YORK — New York City has seen the highest number of homeless people of any big city across the country, and those numbers have been steadily increasing since the start of the COVID-19 crisis in March. In a recent interview, Police Commissioner Dermot She ..Read More
NYPD Sued for Info on How Cops Treated Homeless People on the Subway Posted on August 10, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in The City The Coalition for the Homeless sued the NYPD Monday for information on the scope and impact of cops’ efforts to encourage homeless people to get off the subways and into shelters. The much-publicized Subway Diversion Project, with its philosophy of “s ..Read More
New York is moving homeless people into luxury hotels to protect them against coronavirus and wealthy neighbourhoods aren’t happy Posted on August 10, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in The Independent New York was in the midst of a record homelessness crisis even before the coronavirus hit. Some 60,000 people were filling municipal shelters across the city every night. Nearly a third of that number was living in dorm-style facilities for single adults, ..Read More
Coalition for the Homeless Statement on Release of NYC’s Affordable Housing Numbers for FY20 Posted on August 5, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro Coalition for the Homeless' response to Mayor Bill De Blasio's August, 2020 affordable housing announcement. ..Read More
As The Pandemic Rages On, Homeless Women & Children Are Facing A Dire Future Posted on August 4, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in Refinery 29 While most of us have spent seemingly endless months now afraid of COVID-19, our collective fear does not mean we have all been sharing the same risks. As we have seen, the coronavirus is not an equalizer, but rather has affected different groups of Ameri ..Read More
Removing NYPD from Homeless Outreach is a Long-Overdue Positive Step; Here’s What Must Come Next Posted on August 3, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in Gotham Gazette As the city gradually reopens, we’ve seen many homeless New Yorkers kicked off the subways without being offered a safe, private alternative place to sleep. In some recent cases, we have seen police officers use unacceptable violence to drag homeless New Y ..Read More
