New York City’s Homeless Population Has High Covid-19 Mortality Rate Posted on June 9, 2020 by Paul Berger in The Wall Street Journal Advocates called on New York City and the state to better protect homeless people from Covid-19 in a report charting how the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected the homeless. ..Read More
Coalition for the Homeless Testifies on the Disparate Impact of COVID-19 on Homeless People in New York City Posted on May 22, 2020 by Jacquelyn Simone As the new coronavirus (the pathogen that causes COVID-19) began to spread across New York City, it soon became clear that the legacy of systemic oppression and inequality had placed some New Yorkers at far greater risk of contracting and succumbing to the vir ..Read More
May 20th COVID-19 Virtual Memorial Posted on May 22, 2020 On May 20th several New York City faith leaders and homeless advocacy and services groups held the first virtual memorial services to honor the many homeless and formerly homeless New Yorkers, as well as those serving them, who have lost their lives during the ..Read More
Federal Health Authorities Warn Against Dispersing Homeless Without Refuge Posted on May 20, 2020 by Claudia Irizarry Aponte in The City As City Hall struggles to house hundreds of homeless New Yorkers ejected nightly from shut-down subways, federal health authorities have weighed in with a warning: unsheltered homeless people should stay put unless they get a safe place to go. The U.S. Centers ..Read More
America’s Cities Could House Everyone if They Chose To Posted on May 15, 2020 by Binyamin Appelbaum in The New York Times Tonight, more than half a million Americans will sleep in public places because they lack private spaces. They will huddle in crowded New York City shelters, or pitch tents under highways in Washington, D.C., or curl up in the doorways of San Francisco office ..Read More
De Blasio: Just 3 percent of homeless booted from subways remain in shelters Posted on May 14, 2020 by Julia Marsh in New York Post Just over 100 homeless people out of 3,333 approached by cops and outreach workers as they left the subway system during the overnight shutdowns have remained in shelters, Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted Thursday. Between May 6, when the system first shuttered f ..Read More
‘Literally a Lifeline:’ Doctors Without Borders Is Getting Cell Phones to Homeless People so They Can Stay Connected During Coronavirus Posted on May 14, 2020 by Emma Ockerman in VICE Doctors Without Borders is known globally for dispatching its medical teams and logistical services to impoverished war-torn, famine-stricken, disaster-plagued countries that need life-saving services, fast. So when it set up shop in New York City at the onset ..Read More
Homeless Sent from Subways to Social Distancing Nightmares Posted on May 14, 2020 by Greg B. Smith in The City It’s around 2 o’clock in the morning and the beige marble lobby of the 30th Street Men’s Shelter in Manhattan has filled up with more than 20 homeless men just expelled from the city’s subways, trying to get some sleep. They are, to put it charitably, ..Read More
Governor Cuomo Owes Subway Riders and Homeless New Yorkers A Housing Plan Posted on May 13, 2020 by Danny Pearlstein and Giselle Routhier in Gotham Gazette The subway is New York’s circulatory system. If it doesn’t recover, New York won’t. But reopening the subway and the city means more than running more trains: It also means helping homeless New Yorkers who today have nowhere else safe to go. ..Read More
