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
Advocates for Homeless Camp out at City Hall Posted on September 26, 2019 by Nicole Edine in Pix11 News A modest gathering inside City Hall Park Thursday evening aimed at raising awareness to New York City’s ongoing homeless crisis and the desperate need for more affordable housing. This was organized with a single goal: to get the attention of Mayor Bill de B ..Read More
Fed Up With De Blasio, Homeless Advocates Revive Sleep-Out Protest At City Hall Park Posted on September 27, 2019 by Nicole Edine in Gothamist In the summer of 1988, Chris Henry, a homeless man, was riding the city subways when he noticed a flier advertising an annual “sleep out” protest to call attention to homelessness at City Hall Park. Henry decided he had nothing better to do so he h ..Read More
Disappointed in De Blasio, Homeless Advocates Host ‘Sleep Out’ at City Hall Posted on September 26, 2019 by Nicole Edine in The Wall Street Journal When Mayor Bill de Blasio was elected mayor in 2013, advocates for the homeless saw him as a leader who could bring meaningful change to New York City’s affordable-housing crisis. They were so convinced of his commitment to the issue that they stopped their ..Read More
We the Commuters: Homelessness in the Subways Posted on September 24, 2019 by Nicole Edine in WNYC We the Commuters goes live-in-studio with a look at homelessness in the subways, hosted by Shumita Basu along with her fellow WNYC and Gothamist reporters. The number of people sleeping on the trains is up as commuters confront “compassion fat ..Read More
Homeless Savings Plan is ‘Paternalistic,’ New York Pols and Advocates Say Posted on September 24, 2019 by Nicole Edine in New York Daily News The city shouldn’t force homeless New Yorkers to put big chunks of their scant income into government-controlled accounts to avoid being kicked out of shelters, say a pair of pols along with homeless advocates. The city Homeless Services Department is holdin ..Read More
