Year: 2015

A group of Manhattan residents are calling on the Archdiocese of New York to turn the dozens of churches it closed earlier this year into homeless shelters. Instead of keeping them vacant or selling them for millions, the group — eight friends, most of whom ..Read More

As the city gears up a multibillion-dollar push to house the homeless, officials are showcasing plans to turn an empty South Bronx lot into apartments enhanced with help for residents contending with mental illness. City first lady Chirlane McCray joined in Tu ..Read More

As the city presses landlords to take in homeless families, some have decided it’s okay to illegally refuse to rent to tenants who get government aid, the city controller has found. A disturbing pattern has emerged on Craigslist of landlords openly warning o ..Read More

Marylene Marrero is a 37-year-old hairstylist who lives in Yonkers, New York. She has spent the past couple of years bouncing from apartment to apartment. In that time, there’s something she has held onto very tightly: a letter from the Municipal Housing ..Read More

Even as rates of homelessness decline nationally, the number of homeless continues to rise in many cities with high-cost housing markets, like New York City. While the cost of living in these cities has skyrocketed, wages remain stagnant for many low- and midd ..Read More

Two weeks ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio took a major step in combating our city’s homelessness crisis, committing city resources to create 15,000 units of supportive housing. For me, this was more than just a welcome announcement by a mayor I have been waiting t ..Read More

I usually approach the New York Society for Ethical Culture, where I serve as clergy leader, from Central Park West and look across the street from the park at the words carved into stone on the corner of our meeting house: “Dedicated to the ever-increas ..Read More

What is our city coming to? Or more accurately, what has the world’s greatest city become? Does New York still deserve such a title in the face of what has been called an “epidemic of the working hungry”? Just in time for the holidays, a new report by th ..Read More

Mayor Bill de Blasio has stopped waiting for the state to take the first step, and has started taking responsibility for his city’s needs, particularly on the homeless crisis. His announcement that the city would create 15,000 units of supportive housing ..Read More