Do right by homeless people: A novel idea for how to approach New Yorkers in deep distress Posted on October 9, 2020 by admin in The New York Daily News The recent debacle surrounding the city’s use of the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side to shelter homeless men during the pandemic, and Mayor de Blasio’s Sept. 8 order to transfer the men out of that hotel in response to NIMBY — and, at times, outward ..Read More
Pandemic Causing New York’s Homeless Population to Grow Posted on September 25, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in Spectrum Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there were almost 92,000 homeless New Yorkers. However, now due to a rise in unemployment, opioid use, domestic abuse, and more over the past few months, experts believe that number has grown. “We’re seeing increases in homele ..Read More
NYC plans to move more homeless to appease complaining residents of well-off neighborhoods, City Council member says Posted on September 12, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in New York Daily News Families with children are being moved from a Brooklyn homeless shelter one week before school starts to appease well-to-do New Yorkers who don’t want homeless people among them, said a City Council member who deals with social welfare issues. In the city’ ..Read More
Protesters March to Mayor’s Doorstep to Oppose Plan to Move Homeless Out of NYC Hotels Posted on September 13, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro in NBC New York Homeless advocates marched up to the Mayor Bill de Blasio’s home on Sunday to protest the city’s decision to remove some 300 people living in hotels configured for temporary housing. As a way to contain the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless pop ..Read More
‘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
