City Council Introduces Resolution Calling for Home Stability Support Posted on May 16, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone Thousands of New Yorkers struggle to pay rent each month, and the affordability crisis is particularly challenging for households receiving public assistance benefits. An estimated two-thirds of public assistance households living in private housing statewide ..Read More
Experts Discuss Causes of and Solutions to Record Homelessness Posted on May 12, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone On April 4th, a panel of experts discussed Homelessness and Housing in New York State as part of the Warren M. Anderson Legislative Breakfast Series sponsored by the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. Shelly Nortz, the Coalition’s Deputy Executive D ..Read More
Fair Share Bills Are NOT Fair to Homeless New Yorkers Posted on May 11, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone The citywide affordable housing crisis has pushed record numbers of New Yorkers into homelessness. In an effort to meet its moral and legal obligation to provide shelter for all homeless individuals and families, the City has scrambled to open more shelters to ..Read More
Today’s Read: Why Is the Homeless Crisis Growing? Posted on May 10, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone A combination of economic forces and misguided policy responses has pushed record numbers of men, women, and children into homelessness – leaving the City struggling to address the crisis. Although Mayor de Blasio has made notable improvements in some areas, ..Read More
A Fresh Take on Ending the Jail-to-Street-to-Jail Cycle Posted on May 10, 2017 by Christie Thompson in The Marshall Project George Washington (not the famous one) first ended up in a New York homeless shelter in the mid-1980s, after he came home from prison for robbery and crack cocaine hit the streets. Since then, he’s passed between girlfriends’ houses, hotels, shelters all o ..Read More
New York’s Mayor Vowed to Help the Homeless. Why Is the Crisis Growing? Posted on May 9, 2017 by Jarrett Murphy in The Nation No one really knows how many homeless people there are in New York City, and no one ever has. The city’s official “daily census” tallies the population in the homeless-shelter system, but fails to count thousands of other New Yorkers living under borrowe ..Read More
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality Posted on May 9, 2017 by Matthew Desmond in The New York Times Magazine The son of a minister, Ohene Asare grew up poor. His family immigrated from Ghana when he was 8 and settled down in West Bridgewater, Mass., a town 30 miles south of Boston, where he was one of the few black students at the local public school. “It was us an ..Read More
Coalition Testifies on Mental Health Services Posted on May 8, 2017 by Jacquelyn Simone Last week, the Coalition for the Homeless and The Legal Aid Society submitted testimony to The New York City Council Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services regarding oversight of the ThriveNYC ..Read More
Congress Can’t Afford to Cut Housing for the Mentally Ill Posted on May 5, 2017 by Carol Caton in CityLab As Congress considers the federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 to reduce funding for services to poor and homeless Americans, programs with proven cost-effectiveness should not be on the chopping block. One such program is supportive housing for homele ..Read More
