Here’s How Much You Would Need to Afford Rent in Your State Posted on June 8, 2017 by Tracy Jan in The Washington Post There is nowhere in this country where someone working a full-time minimum wage job could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment, according to an annual report released Thursday documenting the gap between wages and the cost of rental housing. Downsizing to a ..Read More
Home Stability Support: Post-Budget Advocacy Posted on June 9, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone Much of the conversation about homelessness lately has revolved around opposition to the siting of new shelters – but a bold proposal from Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi could dramatically reduce the need for shelters in the first place by rescuing tens of tho ..Read More
Kids Ask De Blasio to Help Homeless Families Posted on June 7, 2017 by Paula Katinas in Brooklyn Daily Eagle Politically savvy Brooklyn fourth-graders are joining forces with the nonprofit group Coalition for the Homeless to fight for better housing conditions for their peers. On June 2, members of Kids for a Better Future (KBF) and representatives of the Coalition f ..Read More
Today’s Read: Show HUD’s Budget Cuts the Door Posted on May 30, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone Even with extraordinarily low unemployment, across the country far too many people are struggling to keep a roof over their heads. An estimated 7.7 million low-income families nationwide spend more than half of their incomes on rent, live in severely inadequat ..Read More
Show HUD’s Budget Cuts the Door Posted on May 30, 2017 by The Editorial Board in The New York Times Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, set the stage for President Scrooge’s meanspirited budget when he suggested that the government had made things too “cozy” for poor people and said that poverty was merely a “state of mind.” ..Read More
Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts Posted on May 22, 2017 by Julie Hirschfeld Davis in The New York Times President Trump plans to unveil on Tuesday a $4.1 trillion budget for 2018 that would cut deeply into programs for the poor, from health care and food stamps to student loans and disability payments, laying out an austere vision for reordering the nation’s p ..Read More
Today’s Read: Under Settlement, City Shelters Will Do More for Homeless People With Disabilities Posted on May 19, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone In a tremendous victory for the many homeless New Yorkers with disabilities who struggle to navigate the shelter system, a new class-action settlement will require the City to ensure that homeless shelters and intake offices in all five boroughs are accessible ..Read More
Under Settlement, City Shelters Will Do More for the Disabled Posted on May 18, 2017 by Nikita Stewart in The New York Times New York City’s homeless services agency, under a settlement reached this week, has agreed to do more to accommodate homeless people who are disabled. The Center for Independence of the Disabled, one of the groups that filed the class-action lawsuit, counts ..Read More
Stresses of Shelter Life Rip Homeless Families Apart, Study Finds Posted on May 16, 2017 by Amy Zimmer in DNAinfo A record 23,000 children — nearly half of whom are under 6 — are now living in the city’s shelter system, and more often than not, their families are placed in shelters far from their communities, according to a new report from the Center for New Yor ..Read More
