8,000 Homeless People to Be Moved From Hotels to Shelters, New York Says Posted on June 16, 2021 by admin in The New York Times New York City plans to move about 8,000 homeless people out of hotel rooms and back to barrackslike dorm shelters by the end of July so that the hotels can reopen to the general public, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday. When the pandemic lockdo ..Read More
Homeless New Yorkers Lead a Push for Better Rental Vouchers Posted on June 8, 2021 by admin in Next City Milton Perez has spent years in New York’s shelter system, often sleeping in dormitory-style rooms with up to 20 other people and just three or four feet of space on either side of his bed. Last May, as part of the city’s emergency response to the Covid-19 ..Read More
NYC Touts Drop in Street Homelessness, But Advocates Say Count Obscures Extent of Crisis Posted on May 21, 2021 by Elizabeth Lepro in City Limits Mayor Bill de Blasio touted a significant decrease in the number of people identified in its annual street homeless count—but advocates caution that a spike in enforcement, and a new census methodology, likely obscure the true extent of the crisis. The cityâ ..Read More
Number of single adults living in NYC homeless shelters reached all-time high during COVID, fueling death rates: study Posted on April 28, 2021 by admin in NY Daily News The number of single adults living in homeless shelters across the five boroughs reached an all-time high during the pandemic, likely contributing to a disproportionate spike in coronavirus deaths among that population, according to a new study. ..Read More
Stop stigmatizing homeless New Yorkers Posted on April 19, 2021 by admin in NY Daily News If there is one thing we have learned over the past four decades, it is that New York City cannot police its way out of the homelessness crisis. Far too often, homeless New Yorkers are subject to unnecessary interactions with law enforcement — and sometimes ..Read More
Sleeping Behind The Bronx Zoo: Why Some New Yorkers Choose Streets Over Shelters Posted on April 5, 2021 by admin in The City Anthony Lewis, 62, hunkered down in a tattered blue canvas camping chair on the sidewalk across from the Chrysler Building as a frigid wind raced down 42nd Street. He’d just been given a pair of gloves by a kind passerby. But the parka he wore and the thin b ..Read More
Expanding forced commitments to hospital is wrong Rx for the homeless — and for most people Posted on March 8, 2021 by admin in NY Daily News Gov. Cuomo’s perennial preaching on homelessness is meant to reassure us all that he knows just what to do about a seemingly intractable problem. But, as with so many other issues, our state’s chief executive too often shirks his own responsibility for con ..Read More
Acceptance Rate For Homeless Families At NYC Shelters Drops To Record Low Posted on February 4, 2021 by admin in Gothamist Last year, the percentage of New York City families deemed eligible to live in homeless shelters dropped to its lowest point during the de Blasio administration, according to recently released city data. The city has always investigated whether fam ..Read More
COVID-19 Causes A Sharp Rise In Deaths Of NYC Homeless Posted on January 19, 2021 by admin in Gothamist Some 631 homeless New Yorkers died between July of 2019 and June of 2020, a 52% increase compared to the prior fiscal year, according to data released Tuesday by the de Blasio administration, a grim indicator of the effect of the coronavirus on people lacking ..Read More
