Where Brooklyn Tenants Plead the Case for Keeping Their Homes Posted on May 20, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Outside, shuddering in the cold, they waited. For regulars, the ones flung repeatedly into this quizzical place, they knew it was going to be a long, sour wait, for the line looped back and wiggled around the corner and touched the Lane Bryant store. The Lane ..Read More
The Eviction Machine Churning Through New York City Posted on May 20, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times When Neri Carranza went to see the apartment on West 109th Street in Manhattan, she folded money into the pocket of her blue jacket, just in case she liked the place. This would be the first apartment she had ever looked at, the first time she could make a hom ..Read More
Behind New York’s Housing Crisis: Weakened Laws and Fragmented Regulation Posted on May 20, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times The assault began shortly after a new owner bought the building at 25 Grove Street in June 2015. Surveillance cameras arrived first, pointed at the doors to rent-regulated apartments. Then came the construction workers, who gutted empty units and sent a dust c ..Read More
Homeless Woman’s Court Fight Inspires 2 City Council Bills Posted on May 10, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times Angela Castillo was tired of moving, and she was tired of the way she was being treated, like so many other people who enter New York City’s homeless shelter system. The shelter system can feel like a constant shuffle, and shelter residents often lash out at ..Read More
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to Propose Raising Rent for Low-Income Americans Receiving Federal Housing Subsidies Posted on April 25, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Washington Post Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson proposed far-reaching changes to federal housing subsidies Wednesday, tripling rent for the poorest households and making it easier for housing authorities to impose work requirements. Carson’s proposals, an ..Read More
Council Speaker Slams Slow Progress of de Blasio’s Supportive Housing Plan Posted on April 24, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News City Council Speaker Corey Johnson tore into the de Blasio administration for delays in its plan to build thousands of supportive housing apartments for formerly homeless New Yorkers. Mayor de Blasio promised in 2015 to create 15,000 supportive housing units o ..Read More
Homeless Deaths Surge Posted on April 13, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Washington Post Desperate to avoid an early death, Michael Jenkins finally found a doctor willing to operate on his damaged liver. But Jenkins knew all along that it was the recovery that was more likely to kill him out here on the city’s streets. Within days of the docto ..Read More
N.Y. Politicians Create $15M Affordable Housing Pilot Program to Battle Homelessness Posted on April 9, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News ALBANY — The recently enacted state budget creates a new affordable housing pilot program designed to help those who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing, the Daily News has learned. The $15 million for the “Fair Market Rent” pilot plan pushed ..Read More
In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America Posted on April 7, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times RICHMOND, Va. — Before the first hearings on the morning docket, the line starts to clog the lobby of the John Marshall Courthouse. No cellphones are allowed inside, but many of the people who’ve been summoned don’t learn that until they arrive. “Put i ..Read More
