Leading Advocate Frustrated By Mayor’s Plan For Homelessness Posted on November 15, 2019 by Nicole Edine in CBS 2 New York Coalition For The Homeless Policy Director Giselle Routhier spoke to CBSN New York’s Cindy Hsu about what’s lacking in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed plan to address the homeless crisis in New York City. ..Read More
New York to Use 18,000 City Workers to Identify and Help Homeless Posted on November 14, 2019 by Nicole Edine in The New York Times New York City will direct more than 18,000 of its municipal workers to use 311 to give social service workers real-time information to help them steer the almost 4,000 people who live on the streets into shelters. The effort, known as Outreach NYC, is the late ..Read More
Manhattan’s CB4 Honored for Compassionate Approach to the Homeless Posted on November 6, 2019 by Nicole Edine in AM New York With homelessness continuing to be a major issue citywide, attention is often paid to communities who are resistant to new shelters coming into their area. But the Coalition for the Homeless is recognizing Manhattan’s Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen community f ..Read More
Rancid, Expired Food Sickening People Across New York City’s Homeless Shelters Posted on October 31, 2019 by Nicole Edine in CBS 2 New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered an investigation after residents of a Brooklyn homeless shelter got sick from eating rancid expired chicken, but that’s not the only shelter where residents are being served inedible meals. Whee ..Read More
One In 10 NYC Students Still Homeless As Crisis Persists Posted on October 28, 2019 by Nicole Edine in New York City Patch NEW YORK — The last school year was the fourth straight in which New York City’s public schools taught more than 100,000 homeless students, according to new data that shows a continuing crisis in the five boroughs. About one in 10, or 114,085, of the c ..Read More
De Blasio Again Brushes Aside Calls for Change to Homeless Housing Approach Posted on October 24, 2019 by Nicole Edine in PoliticoPro New York Mayor Bill de Blasio brushed aside calls for more affordable housing to tackle homelessness Thursday, saying offering people on the street a place to live would not solve the problem. Activists have been pressing for a plan that would set aside more subsidized ..Read More
Four Deaths, Four Mysteries: Why Were They on the Street? Posted on October 9, 2019 by Nicole Edine in The New York Times After four days, the police were still struggling to identify one of the four homeless men who were brutally killed in Chinatown on Saturday, and questions abounded about how the others ended up sleeping on the streets where they lost their lives. Investigator ..Read More
Guarantee Every New Yorker a Home Posted on October 9, 2019 by Nicole Edine in New York Daily News The two of us — one, a formerly homeless, formerly incarcerated New Yorker and the other, the state assemblywoman for the district where the terrible crime took place — began the week at a vigil in Kimlau Square to mourn the loss of four community members ..Read More
Coalition For The Homeless Policy Director Says Urgent Response Needed In Wake Of Murders Posted on October 8, 2019 by Nicole Edine in CBSN One of the people making the call for urgent action to help get homeless individuals off the streets after this weekend’s deadly attack is Giselle Routhier, policy director for the Coalition for the Homeless. She joined Dana Tyler on CBSN New York on Tuesday ..Read More
