Expert Points to Disconnect Between de Blasio Housing and Homelessness Plans Posted on March 22, 2018 by Gabriel Slaughter and Ben Max in Gotham Gazette The city’s homelessness crisis has been a major challenge for Mayor Bill de Blasio since he took office in 2014. While the crisis was growing over the course of decades, key decisions were made just a few years before de Blasio became mayor that appear to ha ..Read More
This is the Most Dangerous Time in Decades to Be an American Living in Poverty Posted on March 20, 2018 by Greg Kaufmann in The Nation In recent months, the speed and force with which the Trump administration and conservative lawmakers have moved to make the lives of people with low incomes harder has been stunning and disorienting. To name a few damaging policy initiatives: a proposal to pun ..Read More
Evaluating the Rent Crisis Posted on March 20, 2018 by Abigail Savitch-Lew in City Limits Initial results from a survey on the city’s housing stock provide ample evidence that the city is still in a housing emergency and it’s necessary for rent regulations to be both preserved and strengthened, according to City Council members, de Blasio admin ..Read More
New York City Is Failing Homeless Students, Reports Say Posted on March 15, 2018 by Elizabeth A. Harris in The New York Times City workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say. Mayor ..Read More
Today’s Read: Population at City Homeless Shelters Hits Record High Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone This week, the Coalition for the Homeless released our 2018 State of the Homeless report, Fate of a Generation: How the City and State Can Tackle Homelessness by Bringing Housing Investment to Scale. The annual report offers a comprehensive analysis of record ..Read More
Report: Number of Homeless in City Shelters at Record High Posted on March 14, 2018 in NY1 News The number of people staying at city homeless shelters reportedly hit an all time high last year. According to the Daily News, the annual report by the Coalition for the Homeless found the average nightly population in city shelters reached 63,495 in December. ..Read More
Population at City Homeless Shelters Hits Record High of 63,495, Study Shows Posted on March 14, 2018 by Jillian Jorgensen in New York Daily News The average nightly population in city homeless shelters last December was 63,495 — a record high, the annual State of the Homeless Report from the Coalition for the Homeless found. “It’s a huge amount of people,” Giselle Routhier, policy director at C ..Read More
Today’s Listen: Podcast on Shelter Numbers, de Blasio’s Agenda, Cuomo’s Record Posted on March 6, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone This week, Coalition for the Homeless Policy Director Giselle Routhier visited the Max & Murphy podcast with City Limits and Gotham Gazette for a wide-ranging conversation on the policies needed to effectively combat record homelessness: “It’s ok to sa ..Read More
Top Homeless Advocate on Shelter Numbers, De Blasio’s Agenda, Cuomo’s Record Posted on March 5, 2018 by Jarrett Murphy in City Limits New York’s homeless shelter numbers—a consistent source of alarm over the last five years—have shown some signs of stabilizing. The average number of families with children in the system has been lower in each of the past eight months than over the compa ..Read More
