If a 6-Year-Old Can Help His City, Why Can’t You? Posted on February 20, 2014 by Sarah Goodyear in The Atlantic Cities Blake Ansari is only six-years-old, but he’s already done something to make his city better. The first-grader, who attends the Metropolitan Montessori School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, had been thinking this winter about other kids in his city, k ..Read More
Harsh winter leads to more homeless on city streets Posted on February 18, 2014 by Talia Avakian in Pavement Pieces A Styrofoam container of hot soup, a loaf of bread, an orange, and a carton of milk may not seem like much of meal, but for the increasing number of homeless people living in New York’s streets, these meals provided by the Coalition of the Homeless’ Grand ..Read More
TODAY’S READ: Homeless Hope for Better Days with New Mayor Posted on February 14, 2014 by GABRIELA SANDOVAL REQUENA Mayor de Blasio inherited a historic homelessness crisis when he took office last month. But the good news is he can take some immediate steps to reduce New York City’s shelter population with the right mix of housing-based policies. WNYC’s Mirela Iverac r ..Read More
Homeless Hope for Better Days With New Mayor Posted on February 14, 2014 by Mirela Iverac in WNYC News On a recent bitterly cold day, standing in front of a shelter in East New York, Cicely had a message for Mayor Bill de Blasio. “Let’s make a change,” she said. “It’s time to make a change because I think it’s unfair the shelter system is so cr ..Read More
Mayor de Blasio’s Budget: Long-Overdue Help for Homeless and Poor New Yorkers Posted on February 13, 2014 by Patrick Markee Mayor de Blasio’s first budget plan provides long-overdue help to homeless and low-income New Yorkers – and reverses many of the misguided and harmful cutbacks proposed by the previous administration. Mayor de Blasio released his FY 2015 preliminary budge ..Read More
De Blasio Administration Acts Quickly to Protect Vulnerable Homeless Kids & Families from the Cold Posted on February 12, 2014 Test Testing Testing Testing Testing Chocolate cake chocolate cake sugar plum toffee liquorice danish gummi bears. Oat cake wafer bear claw wafer. Gummi bears jelly-o sweet roll. Pie chocolate bar apple pie dragée oat cake pudding sugar plum. Pie soufflé hal ..Read More
As subway homeless population grows, new $6M outreach effort by city and MTA to launch in July Posted on February 10, 2014 by Pete Donohue in New York Daily News The homeless population in the subway has soared 90% in recent years, prompting an ambitious new effort to get the troubled riders assistance and off the rails, city officials said. The city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are funding a $6 milli ..Read More
Levine must back Housing First to help homeless Posted on February 10, 2014 by Chris Meyer in Columbia Spectator If you ever find yourself walking down Amsterdam Avenue on a particularly frigid evening, take notice of the line of grates in the sidewalk of 114th Street behind John Jay. On most days, the grates emit a column of hot steam, which slowly rises over the sidewa ..Read More
New York And Los Angeles Deal With The Homeless In Completely Different Ways Posted on January 30, 2014 by Kevin Short in Huffington Post New York City and Los Angeles have vastly larger homeless populations than any other cities in the country. But while most of New York’s homeless population is sheltered, the same can’t be said about Los Angeles. Just take a look at this chart. ..Read More
