For Homeless, Getting Shelter Will Soon Be Harder
Homeless single adults will have to prove they have no place to go in order to stay in a city shelter starting next Monday.The decision to implement the policy – which is already in place for homeless...
View ArticleRecord Number in City Shelters: Report
There are more than 41,000 New Yorkers living in the city's homeless shelters — the highest number ever, according to to a new report from the Coalition for the Homeless.The group said 17,000 children...
View ArticleBloomberg Stands By Homeless Policy, Denies Rift With Quinn
Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the city's new homeless policy in the face of a threatened lawsuit by the City Council.Bloomberg said it's fair to require single adults entering the shelter system to...
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Homeless Fix Can Be Found in Vacant Buildings, Lots: Report
Citywide there are tens of thousands of apartments that are vacant and could be re-purposed to solve the long standing city's homeless problem, according to a report released Thursday afternoon.The...
View ArticleCity No Longer Has to Pay Rent for Formerly Homeless: Court
A court has ruled that New York City is no longer required to pay rent for 11,000 formerly homeless individuals and families that are receiving a housing subsidy funded by the city and the state. The...
View ArticleCity to Stop Paying Rent for Thousands of Formerly Homeless
The Department of Homeless Services announced on its web site Friday that it will not pay February rents for at least 9,000 formerly homeless families and individuals currently receiving rental...
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Evictions Begin after City Housing Voucher Ends
The loss of a city housing voucher has left many poor tenants scrambling to keep a roof over their heads.Last month, about 8,000 households were notified that their housing assistance had come to an...
View ArticleAppeals Court: OK for City to Cut Rent Aid to Homeless
An appeals court has upheld New York City's move to cut off rent-assistance payments to thousands of formerly homeless families after state and federal funding dried up.The state Supreme Court...
View ArticleDozens Return to Shelters After City Halted Rent Subsidy
Dozens of families have returned to homeless shelters since the city ended a housing voucher program that was meant to help them live in their own apartments, officials said Thursday.Homeless...
View ArticleEvictions on the Rise in the City
Eviction rates increased in all boroughs except Manhattan in 2011, but nowhere was the problem as bad as in the Bronx.There were 10,140 evictions carried out in the Bronx in 2011, a 17 percent increase...
View ArticleNon-Profits Get $3M to Ease Housing Subsidy Demand
The city and state have released up to $3 million to non-profits so they can hire new staff to deal with the high demand for a rental subsidy program.Over the summer non-profits, mostly in the Bronx...
View ArticleBloomberg's Homeless Policy Under Fire as Shelter Population Grows
On any given night in January, there were more than 50,000 people sleeping in New York City shelters, according to a new report from a homeless advocacy group.Patrick Markee, senior analyst with the...
View ArticleTo Create Housing for Homeless, Landlords Evict Paying Tenants
Desperate for shelter space, New York City has been paying landlords in low income communities much more for their apartments than they could get in the private market. The result? Landlords are...
View ArticleIn Boston, Signs of the Homeless Get Colorful Makeovers
A new, provocative art project in Boston seeks to raise awareness of homelessness.Christopher Hope and Kenji Nakayama have started a program called “Signs for the Homeless,” which invites artists in...
View ArticleFamilies Displaced by Sandy Receive Last Minute Aid
More than 100 families left homeless by Sandy who've been staying in hotels didn't get kicked out on Friday as expected.The Red Cross is stepping in to cover the cost of their rooms until they can find...
View ArticleIn Limbo, Long After the Waters Rose
On Oct. 29 of last year, Cherell Manuel and her kids escaped Sandy's rising flood waters on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway. The storm demolished their rented apartment and ruined their...
View ArticleWhere Recycling Goes; the Musical "The Landing"; Russell Banks's New Short...
Adam Minter describes what happens to our soda cans, glass bottles,and old newspapers after they’re put out on the curb, and how recycling became a global industry. Composer John Kander and lyricist...
View ArticleHomelessness in New York
New Yorker staff writer Ian Frazier and Mary Brosnahan, president of Coalition for the Homeless, discuss why New York has more homeless now than it had for decades, what life is like for many of the...
View ArticleTop Court Rejects Bloomberg's Homeless Policy
New York State’s top court on Tuesday blocked the Bloomberg administration's plan to impose new requirements on single adults trying to enter homeless shelters.In 2011, the Department of Homeless...
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Soup Kitchens Didn't Get Enough Food Donations to Offer Thanksgiving Meals
Churches in North Jersey who regularly feed the hungry say they didn’t get enough food donations this year to offer a Thanksgiving meal.“I used to be able to get turkeys all over the place,” said...
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