NY homeless population increasing exponentially Posted on February 25, 2014 by Susan Modaress in Press TV The number of homeless sleeping each night in the New York City shelter system has surpassed 50,000 people, for the first time in three decades. According to a report by the Coalition for the Homeless, more children and adults are homeless now in New York City ..Read More
The dangerous zone between a halfway house and freedom Posted on February 24, 2014 by Maura Ewing in Aljazeera America Last October a man, whom we’ll call Steve, walked around the apartment where he resided in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, part of a three-building complex of identical redbrick structures stretching down a side street. (All residents’ names have ..Read More
New York Is Removing Over 400 Children From 2 Homeless Shelters Posted on February 21, 2014 by Andrea Elliott and Rebecca R. Ruiz in New York Times In the face of New York’s mounting homeless crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Friday that his administration is removing hundreds of children from two city-owned homeless shelters that inspectors have repeatedly cited for deplorable conditions ov ..Read More
If a 6-Year-Old Can Help His City, Why Can’t You? Posted on February 20, 2014 by Sarah Goodyear in The Atlantic Cities Blake Ansari is only six-years-old, but he’s already done something to make his city better. The first-grader, who attends the Metropolitan Montessori School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, had been thinking this winter about other kids in his city, k ..Read More
Harsh winter leads to more homeless on city streets Posted on February 18, 2014 by Talia Avakian in Pavement Pieces A Styrofoam container of hot soup, a loaf of bread, an orange, and a carton of milk may not seem like much of meal, but for the increasing number of homeless people living in New York’s streets, these meals provided by the Coalition of the Homeless’ Grand ..Read More
Homeless Hope for Better Days With New Mayor Posted on February 14, 2014 by Mirela Iverac in WNYC News On a recent bitterly cold day, standing in front of a shelter in East New York, Cicely had a message for Mayor Bill de Blasio. “Let’s make a change,” she said. “It’s time to make a change because I think it’s unfair the shelter system is so cr ..Read More
De Blasio Administration Acts Quickly to Protect Vulnerable Homeless Kids & Families from the Cold Posted on February 12, 2014 Test Testing Testing Testing Testing Chocolate cake chocolate cake sugar plum toffee liquorice danish gummi bears. Oat cake wafer bear claw wafer. Gummi bears jelly-o sweet roll. Pie chocolate bar apple pie dragée oat cake pudding sugar plum. Pie soufflé hal ..Read More
As subway homeless population grows, new $6M outreach effort by city and MTA to launch in July Posted on February 10, 2014 by Pete Donohue in New York Daily News The homeless population in the subway has soared 90% in recent years, prompting an ambitious new effort to get the troubled riders assistance and off the rails, city officials said. The city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are funding a $6 milli ..Read More
Levine must back Housing First to help homeless Posted on February 10, 2014 by Chris Meyer in Columbia Spectator If you ever find yourself walking down Amsterdam Avenue on a particularly frigid evening, take notice of the line of grates in the sidewalk of 114th Street behind John Jay. On most days, the grates emit a column of hot steam, which slowly rises over the sidewa ..Read More
