Facing Homeless Crisis, New York Vows 1,000 New Apartments a Year Posted on December 12, 2019 by Nicole Edine in The New York Times A law would mandate that affordable-housing projects built with city assistance must have 15 percent of the apartments reserved for the homeless. As New York City grapples with record numbers of homeless people, Mayor Bill de Blasio has faced deepening critici ..Read More
Homeless Outreach Workers: Nothing We Do Matters Without New Housing Posted on December 12, 2019 by Nicole Edine in Gothamist After a homeless man allegedly bludgeoned four other homeless men to death on the streets of Chinatown, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Outreach NYC, a new plan to address the ongoing crisis of street homelessness in the city. The center of this plan involv ..Read More
Mayor Offers More Homeless Outreach, But Advocates Want More Beds Posted on December 10, 2019 by Nicole Edine in CityLimits.Org Could anyone argue against more engagement of the kind Mayor de Blasio unveiled late last month, when he announced plans to enlist 18,000 city workers as the eyes and ears of a rejuvenated effort to identify street homeless New Yorkers so outreach workers can ..Read More
New York City Homeless-Shelter Residents Bash Food Posted on November 21, 2019 by Nicole Edine in The Wall Street Journal Homeless shelters across New York City are serving substandard food, a half-dozen shelter residents said Thursday at a City Council hearing. The residents, who have lived in various shelters, compared the food to slop. Some said they were served moldy cartons ..Read More
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
