City Pushes Back Against Another Austere HUD Budget Posted on February 21, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits The Trump administration’s FY 2019 budget once again includes unprecedented cuts to the nation’s housing programs that could have a drastic impact on New York’s affordability crisis and public housing stock if approved, housing advocates say. While they ..Read More
Homelessness, Step by Step Posted on February 18, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The New York Times From the windows of a seven-story building on East 151st Street in the Bronx, Manhattan rises like Oz in the distance, a glittering reminder of why so many people want to live in New York City. Inside the building, children sense something is wrong. Their pare ..Read More
Homeless Youth ‘Safety Net of Shelter’ Would Be Extended Under City Council Bills Posted on February 14, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in AMNY The city needs to expand its services for runaway and homeless youth to include young adults ages 24 and younger, whose needs and concerns are often not met by the adult shelter system, advocates and politicians say. ..Read More
Grappling With Homeless Crisis, New York City Stands to Lose 15,000 Rental Vouchers in Federal Budget Posted on February 13, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in Politico With its homeless population already hovering at record levels, New York City would be poised to lose roughly 11 percent of its rental assistance vouchers under President Trump’s proposed fiscal 2019 budget. The president’s recommended funding cut ..Read More
Outreach Workers Combat Street Homelessness on the Front Lines Posted on February 7, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in WNYC Marco Panchame and Ronald Gantt trudged around a ball field beside the Coney Island Creek, bundled in thick coats emblazoned with the words “Homeless Outreach.” They’re two of the nearly 400 outreach workers whose job is to build trust with people living ..Read More
8 Ways to Help the Homeless in New York City Posted on February 5, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in Curbed In recent years, as the city grapples with a lack of affordable housing, New York’s homeless population has soared. According to a 2017 report by Coalition for the Homeless, which has been fighting the city’s homeless crisis since 1981, more than 62,000 me ..Read More
De Blasio’s Plan to Fight Homelessness Won’t Do Much, Critics Say Posted on January 31, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in New York Daily News Mayor de Blasio’s touted his affordable housing plan as unprecedented and ambitious — but advocates for the homeless say it’ll barely put a dent in the population of New Yorkers sleeping in shelters. “We have to tie it to what the need is — and that ..Read More
Cuomo’s Housing Budget Must Go Farther, Some Advocates Say Posted on January 25, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits Albany has it tough this year. As a result of declining revenues, the state faces a $4.4 billion budget deficit that Governor Andrew Cuomo hopes he can eliminate by curbing spending growth to 1.8 percent and creating new revenue sources. Changes to federal hea ..Read More
‘People Will Sign Anything’: How Legal Odds Are Stacked Against the Evicted Posted on January 24, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone in The Guardian Since being evicted from her apartment in New York’s Bronx neighborhood in September, Areletha McLain and her six young children have crammed into a two-bedroom apartment with five relatives. Their belongings are piled up in a corner and the kids sleep doubl ..Read More
