City’s homeless-hotel plan still has holes, advocates say Posted on April 29, 2020 by David Brand in Queens Daily Eagle A new city plan to move 1,000 homeless adults per week out of shelters and into hotel rooms still has some issues to address, say advocates who have monitored the first phase of the city’s gradual effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus inside its shelt ..Read More
Advocates call for Covid-19 testing in shelters, but capacity remains low Posted on April 29, 2020 by Joe Anuta in Politico Homeless advocates are calling on the city and state to proactively test New Yorkers in the shelter system for the coronavirus, but testing capacity in the five boroughs remains scant. The Coalition for the Homeless and several other organizations sent a lette ..Read More
Coalition Testifies on Requiring Private Rooms for Homeless Single Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic Posted on April 24, 2020 by Jacquelyn Simone On Thursday, April 23rd, Coalition for the Homeless and The Legal Aid Society presented testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on General Welfare regarding Intro. 1927, which would require the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) to provide all ..Read More
Today’s Read: Beneath the Sickened City Posted on April 22, 2020 by Jacquelyn Simone For more than a month, Mayor de Blasio and other officials have urged New York City residents to stay home. But even before the rapid economic fallout from the pandemic, record numbers of New Yorkers were already without homes. In addition to the more than 62, ..Read More
Beneath the Sickened City Posted on April 22, 2020 by Maurice Tamman in Reuters NEW YORK – The lights still scream for attention, but on this night Times Square has the feel of an abandoned Hollywood film set. Gone are the hordes of tourists shooting selfies with Elmo and Wonder Woman. Instead, a lone SUV glides by and a passengerâ ..Read More
Queens assemblyman calls for $10 billion in funding for COVID-19 emergency housing and rental assistance Posted on April 21, 2020 by Carlotta Mohamed in QNS State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi and state Senator Brian Kavanagh, joined by a coalition of state and local elected officials and other New York leaders, are calling on Congress to include $100 billion in additional stimulus funding — with $10 billion for New ..Read More
It took a pandemic for cities to finally address homelessness Posted on April 21, 2020 by Catherine Kim in Vox In early March, as Covid-19 cases began to surface across the country, activists were warning that the virus would wreak havoc within homeless populations. Now, more than a month after shelter-in-place orders have been in effect in most major cities, ..Read More
Hundreds of NYC Doctors and Nurses are Begging the City to Act Fast to Keep Homeless Patients Safe Posted on April 17, 2020 by Emma Ockerman in VICE The New York City doctors and nurses charged with handling a huge epidemic have another problem to deal with: The city’s moving too slowly to keep homeless patients safe. A group of more than 500 New York-based physicians, social workers, and nurses, wro ..Read More
NYC asks affordable housing developers to house more homeless New Yorkers Posted on April 17, 2020 by Sam Raskin in Curbed NY New York City will ask developers of nearly completed affordable housing projects to increase the number of apartments set aside for homeless New Yorkers, who are at high risk of contracting COVID-19, according to the city’s housing agency and a letter obtai ..Read More
