Category: News

In 2013, Randy Dillard was living with his four sons and a daughter in an apartment at 198th Street and Bainbridge in the Bronx. The windows were broken; mold and mildew streaked the walls. In the winter, Dillard’s family had to boil water on the stove to ba ..Read More

New Yorkers understand that homelessness is a serious problem: 93 percent say it is a very serious (69 percent) or serious (24 percent) problem, according to a May 2017 Quinnipiac University poll. We notice that there are more people on the streets and we feel ..Read More

Yes, New York City is way less affordable now than seven years ago. Case in point: An apartment going for $2,000 a month for rent in 2010 would now get $2,657 a month, a report published Wednesday from real estate search engine StreetEasy reveals. ..Read More

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law an act that guarantees legal representation to any low-income resident facing eviction. This is the first law in the nation to establish a right to counsel in housing cases, the culmination of a pus ..Read More

Randy Dillard is a single parent with five children in the Bronx. In 2013, he became so sick with emphysema he had to be hospitalized for about two months. Upon returning home, Dillard’s landlord served him eviction papers. “That’s when my nightmare bega ..Read More

Don’t Delay: Deadline is Aug. 18 The Tuesday, Sept. 12 primary is an important one in Brooklyn, with candidates for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, Brooklyn borough president, Brooklyn district attorney and a number of City Council members appearing on ..Read More

Tonight, over 61,000 people in New York City will fall asleep in a municipal shelter. Of those, roughly 15,000 are single adults, with an approximate ratio of one female for every three males; 15,200 are families of primarily female-led households, including ..Read More

Homeless advocates slammed the NYPD’s sweeps of homeless shelters to nab residents with open arrest warrants. Advocates charge that at least seven times this year, cops have showed up at shelters to make arrests. “It is a waste of time. It is a waste of po ..Read More

When the rent rises 5 percent in Atlanta, another 83 people become homeless. In New York, about 3,000 do. In a new study, Zillow compared its own estimates for median rent increases in major U.S. cities with homelessness data published by the U.S. Department o ..Read More