The woman looking out for New York’s 52,000 homeless Posted on March 10, 2014 by Sheila Langan in Irish Central Each night, there are close to 52,000 homeless people in New York City’s shelter system – 22,000 of them children. That’s the highest level of homelessness in the city’s modern history. One of their greatest sources of both advocacy and support is the ..Read More
Hey buddy, can you spare a holding cell? Cops kick up peddler arrests in city subway stations Posted on March 7, 2014 by Thomas Tracy in New York Daily News As of March 2, the NYPD this year had nabbed 274 panhandlers and peddlers on city subways, officials said Thursday. That’s more than three times the amount arrested in the same period last year, where just 90 peddler arrests had been made. ..Read More
City Councilmembers and Advocates Urge the City to Provide Better Assistance to Homeless Families Posted on March 4, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena Last week, at the City Council General Welfare Committee’s first hearing of the year, advocates urged the new administration to improve the lives of thousands of homeless families and children in the city by implementing housing-based policies. The February ..Read More
A Letter from Yesenia: “A war without notice” Posted on February 27, 2014 by Tim Campbell Yesenia, aged 14, has been homeless for nearly three years now. As young as she is, she has already lived in several homeless shelters with her mom and her two sisters. For most of Yesenia’s young life, the family lived in a comfortable three-bedroom apartme ..Read More
At Council Hearing, Calls for New York to Offer Homeless Children and Families More Aid Posted on February 27, 2014 by Andrea Elliott in New York Times Members of the City Council pressed the de Blasio administration at a hearing on Thursday to complete a proposal for rental assistance to New York’s homeless and demanded improved services for more than 22,000 children living in city shelters. ..Read More
NY homeless population increasing exponentially Posted on February 25, 2014 by Susan Modaress in Press TV The number of homeless sleeping each night in the New York City shelter system has surpassed 50,000 people, for the first time in three decades. According to a report by the Coalition for the Homeless, more children and adults are homeless now in New York City ..Read More
The dangerous zone between a halfway house and freedom Posted on February 24, 2014 by Maura Ewing in Aljazeera America Last October a man, whom we’ll call Steve, walked around the apartment where he resided in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, part of a three-building complex of identical redbrick structures stretching down a side street. (All residents’ names have ..Read More
Mayor de Blasio Relocates Homeless Children from Notorious City-Run Shelters Posted on February 21, 2014 by GABRIELA SANDOVAL REQUENA Mayor Bill de Blasio and his administration have taken swift action to begin relocating more than 400 homeless children from two notorious City-run shelters long neglected by previous administrations. In a front page follow-up on a landmark five-part series ..Read More
New York Is Removing Over 400 Children From 2 Homeless Shelters Posted on February 21, 2014 by Andrea Elliott and Rebecca R. Ruiz in New York Times In the face of New York’s mounting homeless crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Friday that his administration is removing hundreds of children from two city-owned homeless shelters that inspectors have repeatedly cited for deplorable conditions ov ..Read More
