Opinion: It’s Time to Make Housing Vouchers Universal Posted on June 28, 2021 by Jacquelyn Simone in City Limits The pandemic has laid bare the economic and health-related vulnerabilities facing so many New Yorkers and highlighted the urgent need to provide everyone with access to both affordable housing and quality health care. Indeed, one of the most salient lessons of ..Read More
De Blasio wants homeless New Yorkers to be moved from hotels to shelters Posted on June 16, 2021 by Anna Lucente Sterling and Shannan Ferry in NY1 NEW YORK — The city intends to move thousands of homeless New Yorkers who have been staying in hotels back into shelters, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday. Shelter residents were moved to hotels temporarily to accommodate social-distancing require ..Read More
8,000 Homeless People to Be Moved From Hotels to Shelters, New York Says Posted on June 16, 2021 by Andy Newman in The New York Times New York City plans to move about 8,000 homeless people out of hotel rooms and back to barrackslike dorm shelters by the end of July so that the hotels can reopen to the general public, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday. When the pandemic lockdo ..Read More
Homeless New Yorkers Lead a Push for Better Rental Vouchers Posted on June 8, 2021 by Jared Brey in Next City Milton Perez has spent years in New York’s shelter system, often sleeping in dormitory-style rooms with up to 20 other people and just three or four feet of space on either side of his bed. Last May, as part of the city’s emergency response to the Covid-19 ..Read More
NYC Touts Drop in Street Homelessness, But Advocates Say Count Obscures Extent of Crisis Posted on May 21, 2021 by David Brand in City Limits Mayor Bill de Blasio touted a significant decrease in the number of people identified in its annual street homeless count—but advocates caution that a spike in enforcement, and a new census methodology, likely obscure the true extent of the crisis. The cityâ ..Read More
Number of single adults living in NYC homeless shelters reached all-time high during COVID, fueling death rates: study Posted on April 28, 2021 by Chris Sommerfeldt in NY Daily News The number of single adults living in homeless shelters across the five boroughs reached an all-time high during the pandemic, likely contributing to a disproportionate spike in coronavirus deaths among that population, according to a new study. ..Read More
Stop stigmatizing homeless New Yorkers Posted on April 19, 2021 by Giselle Routhier in NY Daily News If there is one thing we have learned over the past four decades, it is that New York City cannot police its way out of the homelessness crisis. Far too often, homeless New Yorkers are subject to unnecessary interactions with law enforcement — and sometimes ..Read More
Sleeping Behind The Bronx Zoo: Why Some New Yorkers Choose Streets Over Shelters Posted on April 5, 2021 by Greg B. Smith in The City Anthony Lewis, 62, hunkered down in a tattered blue canvas camping chair on the sidewalk across from the Chrysler Building as a frigid wind raced down 42nd Street. He’d just been given a pair of gloves by a kind passerby. But the parka he wore and the thin b ..Read More
Expanding forced commitments to hospital is wrong Rx for the homeless — and for most people Posted on March 8, 2021 by Shelly Nortz in NY Daily News Gov. Cuomo’s perennial preaching on homelessness is meant to reassure us all that he knows just what to do about a seemingly intractable problem. But, as with so many other issues, our state’s chief executive too often shirks his own responsibility for con ..Read More
