Posted on June 7, 2017 by Paula Katinas in Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn Daily Eagle, By Paula Katinas Politically savvy Brooklyn fourth-graders are joining forces with the nonprofit group Coalition for the Homeless to fight for better housing conditions for their peers. On June 2, members of Kids for a Better Future (KBF) and representatives of the Coalition for the Homeless held a press conference outside City Hall to deliver post cards to Mayor Bill de Blasio asking him to increase the number of families placed into apartments run by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), a move that would enable those families to leave the city’s homeless shelter system.
