Author: Gabriela Sandoval Requena

Mark Bustos works at a salon in Chelsea during the week. On Sundays, he gives homeless men haircuts. ..Read More

Nearly one in 30 children every year experience homelessness, according to a new study. And the problem is worst, on a per capita basis, in Kentucky. ..Read More

A growing number of families that rely on New York City’s shelter system are doing so to escape domestic violence. A report released today by the Independent Budget Office notes that from 2002 to 2011, the shelter system saw a 204% increase in applicants ..Read More

During former mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, at the height of the homelessness crisis, the department of homeless services turned away a growing number of families from city shelters, according to data released yesterday by the Independent Bud ..Read More

Patrick Markee, Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy from the Coalition for the Homeless, and Elizabeth Brown, supervising analyst at the Independent Budget Office, joined Inside City Hall’s Josh Robin to discuss the IBO’s new report on homelessn ..Read More

Six-year-old Tristan Guevera begins his day on the floor of the single room he shares with his parents at a New York City homeless shelter, eating a bowl of cereal with milk bought about an hour earlier. ..Read More

First came Hurricane Sandy, which left her homeless. Then came the live-in boyfriend, who battered her. Now the 44-year-old mother of three young children is homeless again, forced into a shelter by the abuse and trapped there by poverty and the paucity of liv ..Read More

Johileny, 17, of Brooklyn, is an honor student at Juan Morel Campos Secondary School despite having lived in a homeless shelter the last four years. ..Read More

A new study from the Citizens Housing Planning Council confirmed what many already knew: the number of middle-class New Yorkers has shrunk—particularly among the black middle class—while wealthy white and low-income Hispanic populations are surging. ..Read More