Today’s Read: City Chips Away at Homeless Housing Costs Posted on October 8, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena Every night well over 13,000 families with more than 24,000 children are affected by homelessness in New York City. Many of them reside in apartments with deplorable conditions used as temporary shelter, known as “cluster-site” units, for which t ..Read More
City Chips Away at Homeless Housing Costs Posted on October 8, 2014 by Mirela Iverac in WNYC News Heinze, 37, has been homeless since she lost her rent subsidy two years ago. She stays in this apartment, for which the city pays $2,900 a month. The money goes to a non-profit provider who leases the apartment from a private landlord and is supposed to provid ..Read More
Cyndi Lauper Helps Bring Apartments for Homeless LGBT Youths to The Bronx Posted on October 2, 2014 by Eddie Small in DNAinfo Homeless LGBT youths are getting a new place to stay in The Bronx. Grammy Award-winning singer Cyndi Lauper and nonprofit housing company West End Residences are teaming up to build the “True Colors” residences, a complex with 30 studio apartments ..Read More
How Private Companies Are Profiting From Homelessness in New York City Posted on October 1, 2014 by Ben Hattem in Vice News Call him M. He lives in Freedom House — the hotel-turned-homeless shelter on Manhattan’s West 95th Street, two blocks from a concert hall that the New York Times once dubbed a palace of performing arts. ..Read More
Experts Discuss Homelessness Prevention Posted on September 29, 2014 by Inside City Hall in NY1 Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor, Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and the executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, Mary Brosnahan, spoke about preventive measures designed to keep New Yorkers from becoming homeless. ..Read More
11 Ridiculous Questions We Need to Stop Asking Homeless People Right Now Posted on September 26, 2014 by Derrick Clifton in Identities.Mic Public officials and the relatively financially secure have long been guilty of turning the homeless and the poor into scapegoats — and making examples of the people perhaps in most need of compassion and help from their neighbors. It happens everywhere in ..Read More
Richard Gere Was “Radiating Failure” While Begging for Money in ‘Time Out of Mind’ Posted on September 25, 2014 by Ashley Lee in Hollywood Reporter On the streets of Manhattan, a homeless person can be invisible — even when it’s Richard Gere shooting the drama Time Out of Mind. ..Read More
Bunche: Talk to the homeless Posted on September 26, 2014 by Lauren Bunche in CNN Every day I commute into the city along with hundreds of thousands of other New Yorkers. On my walk to the subway, I pass by a homeless man. For months and months, I walked by him and felt bad about it. ..Read More
Treating Homeless People Like Criminals Posted on September 24, 2014 by Lawrence Downes in The New York Times What can be done about homeless people, those poor, sick, jobless souls who just can’t seem to get their acts together and whose suffering makes the streets and sidewalks so uncomfortable for the rest of us? ..Read More