Flophouses Proliferate Despite Investigations, Complaints, Emergency Task Force
New York City's homeless services are straining under the large vulnerable population looking for help — and illegal flophouses often fill the gap. Called three-quarter houses, these centers are often...
View ArticleAs Freeze Hits, Cuomo Orders Homeless Off Streets
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered cities to get homeless people off the streets and into shelters when temperatures dip to 32 degrees or below. The moves comes as temperatures in New York City are expected...
View ArticleDe Blasio Shrugs at Cuomo’s Executive Order, Claiming it Won’t Change City’s...
Laura Nahmias, who reports on City Hall for POLITICO New York, talks about the executive order Governor Cuomo issued this weekend requiring the homeless to be placed in shelters when the temperatures...
View ArticleCity Ends Use of Cluster Sites
New York City is ending the use of the so-called cluster sites to shelter the homeless within the next three years.Currently 3,000 homeless families live in these cluster sites, private apartments that...
View ArticleGovernor's Order Doesn't Change City's Approach to Street Homelessness
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order to remove the homeless off the streets when the temperature drops to 32 degrees went into effect Tuesday, but it hasn’t changed how New York City deals with street...
View ArticleCity Adds More Beds for Homeless Youth
New York City is expanding facilities and resources aimed at helping homeless and runaway youth.Under a new plan presented by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the city will add 300 beds specifically for homeless...
View ArticlePalacio: 'There is No Such Thing as 'Those' People'
Dr. Herminia Palacio was appointed deputy mayor of Health and Human Services Tuesday. It's a major position that puts her in charge of a multi-billion dollar healthcare system and a social service...
View ArticleInfant Living in a Homeless Shelter Unit Dies
A 4-month old girl living in a homeless shelter unit died over the weekend.Police said Akira Williams was found unresponsive when the police arrived to her family’s apartment on Ogden Avenue in the...
View ArticleGov. Cuomo Lays Out Ambitious Agenda in State of the State Address
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered his sixth State of the State address and budget presentation from Albany on Wednesday afternoon. Ethics reform, homelessness, rehabilitating youth offenders, and...
View ArticleAddressing Homelessness; 'Moral Mondays'; Securing the Borders With Technology
Coming up on today's show:Mary Brosnahan, executive director of Coalition for the Homeless, talks about the new proposals for addressing New York City's homeless population.Hear a recap of last night's...
View ArticleWhat It'll Take to Get the Homeless into Homes
Mary Brosnahan, the President and CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless, says that New York City had roughly 35,000 homeless people in 2011 when Gov. Cuomo took office. Now, the city's homeless...
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4 ways to help out during this weekend’s winter storm
Photo by Getty ImagesAs winter storm Jonas approaches, residents of the northeast — especially Washington, D.C., where snowfall could reach two feet — are preparing to hunker down for the weekend.A...
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Homeless Shelter Killing Comes as City Tries To Get Homeless Off the Streets
Police are looking for a 21-year-old who allegedly killed another homeless man in a Manhattan shelter Wednesday night. Police believe Anthony White cut his 62-year-old roommate’s throat at an East...
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City Steps Up Security at Hotels that Shelter Homeless
Police are asking for the public's help in finding a suspect who allegedly stabbed a mother and her three children at a hotel on Staten Island Wednesday morning.The mother, 28, a 1-year-old child and a...
View ArticleCity Defends Efforts to Curb Violence in NYC Shelters
The New York City official in charge of homelessness says the state was "reckless" when it told the NYPD—and the New York Post—about allegations of a gang rape at the Bellevue men's shelter in...
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Police step up effort to evict homeless from Tijuana canals
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Among the homeless population in Tijuana, Mexico, are migrants on the way to the U.S. And because of police raids, they’re living in a rival canal,...
View ArticleCreated On Cuomo's Recommendation, Homeless Agency's Future Now in de...
Mayor de Blasio receives recommendations Tuesday from a review of the city's homeless system that he announced back in December.Among the things, he’ll consider is whether to eliminate the Department...
View ArticleAdvocacy Group Says Homeless Adults Need More Support
The city’s leading advocacy group for the homeless says in its annual report that the state and the city need to do more to help homeless adults living in the city’s shelters and on the streets. “I...
View ArticleCity Re-Structures Agencies to Tackle Homelessness
The city is re-structuring its agencies in an effort to more successfully tackle the homeless crisis it faces, Mayor de Blasio announced on Monday.The Human Resources Administration and the Department...
View ArticleI Got a Little Island: Shakira Four Months Later
In December, we profiled Shakira Crawford, a single mother living with her three children in a homeless shelter in East new York. We followed her as she searched for a permanent home for her family....
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