Rancid, Expired Food Sickening People Across New York City’s Homeless Shelters Posted on October 31, 2019 by Marcia Kramer in CBS 2 New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered an investigation after residents of a Brooklyn homeless shelter got sick from eating rancid expired chicken, but that’s not the only shelter where residents are being served inedible meals. Whee ..Read More
One In 10 NYC Students Still Homeless As Crisis Persists Posted on October 28, 2019 by Noah Manskar in New York City Patch NEW YORK — The last school year was the fourth straight in which New York City’s public schools taught more than 100,000 homeless students, according to new data that shows a continuing crisis in the five boroughs. About one in 10, or 114,085, of the c ..Read More
De Blasio Again Brushes Aside Calls for Change to Homeless Housing Approach Posted on October 24, 2019 by Erin Durkin in PoliticoPro New York Mayor Bill de Blasio brushed aside calls for more affordable housing to tackle homelessness Thursday, saying offering people on the street a place to live would not solve the problem. Activists have been pressing for a plan that would set aside more subsidized ..Read More
Four Deaths, Four Mysteries: Why Were They on the Street? Posted on October 9, 2019 by Ashley Southall, Nikita Stewart and Sharon Otterman in The New York Times After four days, the police were still struggling to identify one of the four homeless men who were brutally killed in Chinatown on Saturday, and questions abounded about how the others ended up sleeping on the streets where they lost their lives. Investigator ..Read More
Guarantee Every New Yorker a Home Posted on October 9, 2019 by Yuh-Line Niou and Felix Guzman in New York Daily News The two of us — one, a formerly homeless, formerly incarcerated New Yorker and the other, the state assemblywoman for the district where the terrible crime took place — began the week at a vigil in Kimlau Square to mourn the loss of four community members ..Read More
Coalition For The Homeless Policy Director Says Urgent Response Needed In Wake Of Murders Posted on October 8, 2019 by Dana Tyler in CBSN One of the people making the call for urgent action to help get homeless individuals off the streets after this weekend’s deadly attack is Giselle Routhier, policy director for the Coalition for the Homeless. She joined Dana Tyler on CBSN New York on Tuesday ..Read More
Advocates for Homeless Camp out at City Hall Posted on September 26, 2019 by Jay Dow in Pix11 News A modest gathering inside City Hall Park Thursday evening aimed at raising awareness to New York City’s ongoing homeless crisis and the desperate need for more affordable housing. This was organized with a single goal: to get the attention of Mayor Bill de B ..Read More
Fed Up With De Blasio, Homeless Advocates Revive Sleep-Out Protest At City Hall Park Posted on September 27, 2019 by Elizabeth Kim in Gothamist In the summer of 1988, Chris Henry, a homeless man, was riding the city subways when he noticed a flier advertising an annual “sleep out” protest to call attention to homelessness at City Hall Park. Henry decided he had nothing better to do so he h ..Read More
Disappointed in De Blasio, Homeless Advocates Host ‘Sleep Out’ at City Hall Posted on September 26, 2019 by Tyler Blint-Welsh in The Wall Street Journal When Mayor Bill de Blasio was elected mayor in 2013, advocates for the homeless saw him as a leader who could bring meaningful change to New York City’s affordable-housing crisis. They were so convinced of his commitment to the issue that they stopped their ..Read More
