New York City Plans $3 Billion Homelessness Effort Posted on November 17, 2015 by Josh Dawsey in The Wall Street Journal New York City, in what will mark the single biggest investment of the de Blasio administration to fight homelessness, plans to create 15,000 additional units of housing that will be paired with social-service support, an initiative estimated to cost about $3 b ..Read More
Electing to Ignore the Poorest of the Poor Posted on November 17, 2015 by Eduardo Porter in The New York Times The first few primary debates of the presidential election season are in. We can see where the economic policy discussion is going. Republicans remain wedded to the fantasy that there is no problem tax cuts can’t fix. Democrats offer a more varied policy too ..Read More
Photos of New York: ‘Through the Eyes of the Homeless’ Posted on November 16, 2015 in The Wall Street Journal A collaboration between photographers and their homeless protégés show us their view of New York City. ‘Through the Eyes of the Homeless’ is a project that pairs professional photographers as mentors with homeless people as their students. Daniel Rosenth ..Read More
The Frequent Flyers of Rikers Island Posted on November 16, 2015 by Cindy Rodriguez in WNYC The sidewalks near Wall Street are prime real estate for panhandlers like 65-year-old Irrae Davis. There are plenty of tourists, office workers and well-heeled banker types who could potentially help a down-on-his-luck man asking for a few bucks. “I have ..Read More
A Daunting Trip to School for Some Homeless Children Posted on November 13, 2015 by Nikita Stewart in The New York Times The daily trek to school begins outside a cluster of budget-price hotels in an industrial area in the middle of Staten Island. The children and their parents, all of them homeless and none from the borough, stream into the predawn darkness and onto buses waiti ..Read More
Council Hearing Will Amplify Calls for More Supportive Housing Posted on November 13, 2015 by Meg O'Connor in Gotham Gazette With nearly 60,000 homeless people sleeping in New York City shelters each night, roughly 24,000 of them children, a City Council hearing Monday will examine one of the essential elements in reducing homelessness. At Monday’s oversight hearing, advocates and ..Read More
The “Bum” The NY Post Wants You to Despise is Actually Human Posted on November 13, 2015 by Ben Yakas in Gothamist Earlier this week, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton implored New Yorkers to suppress any feelings of empathy not yet flushed out of them by NYC and stop giving money to homeless people (“One of the quickest ways to get rid of them is not to give to them ..Read More
New York City Finds One in Five Adults has Mental Health Problems Posted on November 12, 2015 by Laila Kearney in Reuters At least one in five adult New Yorkers suffer from depression, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts or other psychological disorders every year, according to a report released on Thursday ahead of Mayor Bill de Blaiso’s new mental-health initiative. New Yo ..Read More
There’s a Way to Curb Homelessness: Supportive Housing Works, and it’s Affordable — So Gov. Cuomo Should Step Up Posted on November 12, 2015 by Andrew Hevesi and Shelly Nortz in New York Daily News As most of us know by now, homelessness in New York City is at near-record levels. Each night, more than 59,000 New Yorkers, including 24,000 children, bed down in homeless shelters. While most homeless families and some homeless individuals simply need an aff ..Read More
