Stacy Posted on October 30, 2015 Coalition for the Homeless client, Stacy, talks with Dominic Carter about the difficulties entering the NYC Shelter system. This video originally appeared as a segment of Richard French Live on September 3, 2015. ..Read More
Today’s Video: Richard Gere and Oren Moverman Discuss Homelessness Posted on October 29, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone Homelessness is an issue that affects everyone. In the process of making and promoting their new movie, Time Out of Mind, actor Richard Gere and director Oren Moverman were shocked at how many people had stories to share about being homeless or on the brink of ..Read More
Why Richard Gere’s “Homeless” Photo Went Viral: It’s More Common — and Closer to Home — Than We Like to Think Posted on October 28, 2015 by Paula Young Lee in Salon A photograph of actor Richard Gere, homeless man, has gone viral. He’s not actually homeless: he was in character for a recently-released film called “Time out of Mind“. In it, Gere plays a mentally ill homeless man trying to reconnect with his daughter, ..Read More
Ask For 35,000 Units! Posted on October 28, 2015 Sign this petition to let the Governor and the Mayor know that supportive housing is a cost-effective way to end chronic homelessness for the New Yorkers that need it most. UPDATE: Thanks to your activism, Mayor de Blasio recently announced that the City would ..Read More
The Current State of Homelessness and Crucial Next Steps Posted on October 27, 2015 by Mary Brosnahan and Giselle Routhier Yesterday’s New York Times gave A1 placement to Nikita Stewart’s extensive examination of Mayor de Blasio’s efforts to end homelessness. Stewart’s first sentence succinctly summed up the gist: “By one key measure after another, homelessness in New Yo ..Read More
Fixing Homeless Issue Helps All of Us Posted on October 23, 2015 by Dan Burns in Democrat & Chronicle When I say that fixing homelessness is good for business, many skeptics may raise an eyebrow. The assumption is that caring for homeless individuals costs money, and those individuals don’t have the financial means to participate in the local economy. But, a ..Read More
There’s a Good Reason New York’s Homeless Often Sleep in the Subway Posted on October 23, 2015 by Christopher Mathias in The Huffington Post Ten years ago, William Burnett often spent his nights sleeping on the New York City subway. It was better than his other option: a shelter on Wards Island where he said two rival gangs, the Bloods and the Latin Kings, were “trying to outdo each other ove ..Read More
‘No Camping,’ and Other Laws That Sneakily Push the Homeless Away Posted on October 25, 2015 by Robert Rosenberger in The Atlantic Early in August, the Department of Justice weighed in on a legal dispute over ordinances in the city of Boise, Idaho, that make it a crime to sleep in public. The plaintiffs, who first filed the lawsuit in 2009, were themselves homeless people convicted of dis ..Read More
Evictions Throwing More Families Into Homelessness Posted on October 23, 2015 by Haya El Nasser in Al Jazeera America The national campaign to end chronic homelessness in America’s cities has focused on veterans and the chronically homeless. But there is another class of newly homeless: Evicted tenants, often families with children, who can’t afford a roof over their head ..Read More