CityViews: De Blasio Has No Comprehensive Plan to Rehouse the Homeless Posted on October 2, 2018 by Nicole Edine in City Limits The lie began in 2014, when Bill de Blasio campaigned for Mayor on the platform of ending the “tale of two cities.” He said he would end inequality in our City. He said he would help the most vulnerable. The lie continued in 2017 when he was reelected, and ..Read More
New York Takes Step in Long, Hard Journey to Supportive Housing Goal Posted on September 27, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC The 28-story residence hall at 90 Sands Street in DUMBO is sparsely decorated; the large community rooms where hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses once gathered now sit empty. But give it a year’s worth of renovation work and developers say the building wi ..Read More
Checking in on NYC’s Ambitious Homeless Shelter Overhaul, 18 Months Later Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in Curbed New York On a recent weekday morning, the cafeteria of the Bergen House in Crown Heights, Brooklyn was quiet. Seated around long plastic tables, residents from the 104-bed homeless shelter for senior men played dominoes and chatted. One man built small figurines from w ..Read More
New York Housing Crisis: Low-Rent Apartment Stock Has Plummeted Since 2005, Stringer Says Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in amNewYork Tenants and affordable housing advocates joined New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer in lower Manhattan Tuesday to call for rent law reform amid an affordability crisis in the city. A comptroller’s office report titled “The Gap is Still Growing: New Yo ..Read More
Ask the Mayor: School Bus Fiasco, District 15, Post Primary Politics Posted on September 21, 2018 by Nicole Edine in WNYC New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC. Caller Q: Will you raise the number of affordable housing units for homeless people?@NYCMayor: The issue of homelessness is not as simple of moving the homel ..Read More
Single Adults in Homeless Shelters Are on the Rise Posted on September 20, 2018 by Nicole Edine in Politico Mayor Bill de Blasio has had some success in trying to curb a homelessness crisis that has exploded under his watch, but the number of single adults in shelter continues to reach record highs almost every month. More than half a dozen providers and advocates s ..Read More
Cost of Housing Homeless in Shelters Keeps Rising in New York City Posted on September 19, 2018 by Nicole Edine in The Wall Street Journal New York City has increased spending on housing homeless people in shelters in recent years, but the population continues to hover at more than 60,000 despite efforts to move many into permanent housing, a new city report shows. During the 2017 fiscal year, th ..Read More
CityViews: De Blasio Can Fulfill his Progressive Promise by Retooling his Housing Plan Posted on September 17, 2018 by Nicole Edine in CityLimitsNews New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has made great strides in carrying out his oft-repeated pledge to make the Big Apple “the fairest big city in America.” He made universal pre-kindergarten a reality, played a key role in raising the city’s minimum wage, ..Read More
Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. Posted on September 11, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is, Do those jobs pay enough to live on? Venessa Solivan and her three children fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and k ..Read More
