City Announces Plan to Address Section 8 Crisis and Restore Vouchers to 2600 Families! Posted on July 2, 2010 by GISELLE ROUTHIER Yesterday, City officials announced a plan to fix the Section 8 crisis that has been looming over the City for the past several months. The crisis stemmed from deep deficits faced by the New York City Housing Authority, which administers Section 8 vouchers. ..Read More
$32 Million Plan to Resolve NYC’s Section 8 Rent Voucher Crisis Posted on July 1, 2010 by Press Release in Office of the Mayor ..Read More
Expired Unemployment Benefits Causing Panic, Desperation: ‘I’m Drowning Fast’ Posted on July 1, 2010 by Laura Bassett in Huffington Post ..Read More
Time runs out for 1.2 million on unemployment Posted on June 30, 2010 by Christina Zdanowicz in CNN ..Read More
Homeless Brooklyn teen proudly graduates from High School for Civil Rights Posted on June 29, 2010 by Meredith Kolodner ..Read More
The Gap Between the Wealthy and the Poor Gets Bigger Posted on June 29, 2010 by GISELLE ROUTHIER A new brief by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows that the income gap between the richest Americans and the rest of the population has more than tripled in the last 30 years. Not at any other time since 1928 has income been so concentrated at t ..Read More
Viewpoint: A plea for the homeless Posted on June 24, 2010 by Jade McDowell in student at BYU ..Read More
Tell City Hall: Keep Your Promise to 2,600 Vulnerable Families! Posted on June 24, 2010 by PATRICK MARKEE Please join in our campaign to urge the Bloomberg administration to help the 2,600 needy families whose housing vouchers were revoked by the City six months ago. Mary Brosnahan, the Coaliton’s executive director, sent the following message to our support ..Read More
