New York City’s Middle Class Is Shrinking Posted on November 5, 2014 by Megan Malloy in WNYC News A new study from the Citizens Housing Planning Council confirmed what many already knew: the number of middle-class New Yorkers has shrunk—particularly among the black middle class—while wealthy white and low-income Hispanic populations are surging. ..Read More
New York City: For Homeless Veterans, One Size Does Not Fit All Posted on November 6, 2014 in Never Another Homeless Veteran Over the past three years, New York City has witnessed a 65 percent drop in the number of homeless veterans—from 4,677 in 2011 to 1,645 in 2014. ..Read More
City Earns Recognition for Reducing Veteran Homelessness Posted on November 5, 2014 by Kristen Meriwether in Gotham Gazette While homelessness in the city continues to rise, homelessness among the city’s military veterans has decreased by 64 percent (a total of 3,032 veterans) since 2011, according to HUD’s 2014 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress. ..Read More
Homelessness Rose in New York Posted on October 30, 2014 by Tatiana Schlossberg in The New York Times The number of homeless people living on the streets and in shelters across the country fell this year, according to an annual federal survey released on Thursday. But in New York City, the homeless population continued to grow, swelling in almost every categor ..Read More
Paul Bettany on Directing His First Film and His Mission to Help the Homeless Posted on October 29, 2014 by Alexandria Symonds in The New York Times When the actor Paul Bettany set out to write and direct his first feature film, the upcoming “Shelter,” inspiration came from an unlikely source: a homeless couple who lived outside his apartment building. ..Read More
Why I Volunteer With The Grand Central Food Program Posted on October 29, 2014 by Arvind Singh Arvind Singh, a Senior Analyst at AIG, started volunteering with the Grand Central Food Program in 2004. Below, he shares why he has been such a steadfast GCFP volunteer for a decade. For almost 10 years, I’ve had the opportunity of volunteering as a dri ..Read More
Homelessness In The World’s Largest City Just Hit A Record Low Posted on October 27, 2014 by Scott Keyes in Think Progress The number of homeless residents in New York City, the largest city in the United States, reached a record high this month at more than 56,000 people. Halfway around the world, another metropolis recently hit a homeless record of its own: just 1,697 people are ..Read More
CBPP Report: How Housing Location Can Create Opportunity for Children Posted on October 24, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena Earlier this month, Barbara Sard and Douglas Rice from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released the Creating Opportunity for Children Report, which describes how improvements to federal rental assistance programs could substantially bet ..Read More
A tale of two New York Cities: I was rich, my brother was down and out Posted on October 24, 2014 by John Freeman in The Guardian It is the city of dreams and cinema cliches, but also of poverty, soaring rents and inequality. The divide between rich and poor has never been greater, as John Freeman discovered when his brother Tim moved into a homeless shelter a few blocks from his smart a ..Read More
