Manhattan’s homeless rate up an alarming 14% in a single year as wages remain stagnant but rents soa Posted on March 14, 2014 by Beth Stebner in New York Daily News The number of families with children who entered the city’s shelter system increased from 1,129 to 1,288 in Manhattan between 2012 and 2013, a 14% increase, according to numbers provided to the Daily News by the Coalition for the Homeless. ..Read More
New York homeless shelters housing record-high 53,000 people per night Posted on March 13, 2014 by Lauren Gambino in The Guardian The number of homeless people staying overnight in New York City shelters has eclipsed the record-high population reported last year, reaching an average of more than 50,000 people per night, according to a new study. The annual report released Wednesday by t ..Read More
As Homeless Shelter Population Rises, Advocates Push Mayor on Policies Posted on March 12, 2014 by Nikita Stewart in New York Times The number of homeless people staying overnight in New York City shelters reached a dismal record of 53,615 in January, a new study has found, prompting advocates to press Mayor Bill de Blasio to follow through on promises to undo policies that they say drove ..Read More
More Families Slept in New York City Homeless Shelters in January Than Ever Before Posted on March 12, 2014 by Caroline Bankoff in New York Magazine During his first couple months in office, Mayor de Blasio, who, while running for office, pledged to work to ease New York’s homelessness problem, has taken some steps toward fulfilling his promise: First, there was the symbolic gesture of having Dasani ..Read More
Number of Homeless in City Hits Record High, Report Finds Posted on March 12, 2014 in NY1News The number of people spending the night in city homeless shelters has soared to record heights, according to a new report. The Coalition for the Homeless says that from January 2013 to January 2014, the number of people sleeping in a city shelter rose seven p ..Read More
The woman looking out for New York’s 52,000 homeless Posted on March 10, 2014 by Sheila Langan in Irish Central Each night, there are close to 52,000 homeless people in New York City’s shelter system – 22,000 of them children. That’s the highest level of homelessness in the city’s modern history. One of their greatest sources of both advocacy and support is the ..Read More
Hey buddy, can you spare a holding cell? Cops kick up peddler arrests in city subway stations Posted on March 7, 2014 by Thomas Tracy in New York Daily News As of March 2, the NYPD this year had nabbed 274 panhandlers and peddlers on city subways, officials said Thursday. That’s more than three times the amount arrested in the same period last year, where just 90 peddler arrests had been made. ..Read More
A Letter from Yesenia: “A war without notice” Posted on February 27, 2014 by Tim Campbell Yesenia, aged 14, has been homeless for nearly three years now. As young as she is, she has already lived in several homeless shelters with her mom and her two sisters. For most of Yesenia’s young life, the family lived in a comfortable three-bedroom apartme ..Read More
At Council Hearing, Calls for New York to Offer Homeless Children and Families More Aid Posted on February 27, 2014 by Andrea Elliott in New York Times Members of the City Council pressed the de Blasio administration at a hearing on Thursday to complete a proposal for rental assistance to New York’s homeless and demanded improved services for more than 22,000 children living in city shelters. ..Read More
