Grim New Report Shows Rent Is Unaffordable In Every State Posted on June 18, 2019 by Laura Paddison in HuffPost Plenty of evidence shows how widespread and devastating America’s housing crisis is, but perhaps none quite as starkly as this: There’s not a single state, metropolitan area or county in the U.S. where a full-time worker earning the minimum wage can afford ..Read More
Today’s Read: Grim New Report Shows Rent Is Unaffordable in Every State Posted on June 18, 2019 by Jacquelyn Simone The lack of truly affordable housing has long fueled record homelessness in our city: Nearly 62,000 New Yorkers, including 22,000 children, bed down in shelters each night. Communities across the country are similarly feeling the impact of the affordable housi ..Read More
Finding Affordable Housing In NYC Is Hard, It’s Almost Impossible If You’re A Senior Posted on June 12, 2019 by CBSNewYork in CBS 2 New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Liz Cole has lived and worked in New York City for most of her adult life. She says the realities of aging in the city, being her own support system, and living on a fixed income is stressful. “The homelessness issue is very fright ..Read More
Landmark Deal Reached on Rent Protections for Tenants in N.Y. Posted on June 11, 2019 by Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Jesse McKinley and Vivian Wang in The New York Times Newly empowered Democratic leaders in Albany announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday to strengthen New York’s rent laws and tenant protections, seeking to address concern about housing costs that is helping drive the debate over inequality across the natio ..Read More
What’s it Like Growing Older in the NYC Homeless Shelter System? Posted on June 5, 2019 by Roshan Abraham in CityLimits.org Alvin Peterson, a 63-year-old resident of Samaritan Village’s homeless shelter on East 53rd Street, was having trouble breathing last December. His breathing had been getting worse for years, owing to very severe emphysema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary D ..Read More
Survey Says Number of NYC’s Unsheltered Homeless Is Down, but Advocates Disagree Posted on May 31, 2019 by Valeria Ricciulli in Curbed A federal survey that counts individuals sleeping on the streets, parks, and subways on a given winter night every year, found that there are two percent fewer unsheltered homeless individuals in New York City, the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) announc ..Read More
Woes at Wards Island Homeless Shelters Overseen by Gov. Cuomo’s Sister Posted on May 31, 2019 by Greg B. Smith in The City Last fall, a Cuomo administration agency signed off on a new shelter on Wards Island to be operated by HELP Social Services, part of a nonprofit founded decades ago by the governor and chaired by his sister, Maria Cuomo Cole. The Office of Temporary & Disa ..Read More
A Secret to Better Health Care Posted on May 27, 2019 by Robert E. Rubin and Kenneth L. Davis in The New York Times Health care is at the center of the national policy conversation, and with the 2020 presidential election now in full swing, that is where it will probably remain. But for all the talk about how to increase access and reduce costs, we’re missing a critical p ..Read More
Today’s Listen: Counting the Homeless Posted on May 20, 2019 by Jacquelyn Simone With more than 63,000 New Yorkers sleeping in shelters each night, record homelessness carries a significant human and financial cost. As the Coalition’s State of the Homeless 2019 report noted, “The number of people in shelters each night is big enough to ..Read More
