Homelessness
Video: Advocates Critique City, State on Homeless Policy
Jarrett Murphy |
After a year that saw major changes, what is the primary obstacle to more progress? (Hint: It has a population of 98,000 and rhymes with “Mallbany.”)
Homelessness
Max & Murphy on Housing: State Promises and City Progress on Homelessness
Jarrett Murphy |
Coalition for the Homeless officials Mary Brosnahan and Shelly Nortz on the fate of supportive housing in the 2017 state budget, the city’s move to restructure how homeless services are provided and concerns about how people living on the streets are treated by the press and the police.
activism
Acting Out Their Demands, Advocates Take the Stage to Influence NYC Policy
Jarrett Lyons |
Advocates using Theater of the Oppressed techniques are turning an empowerment tool developed in South America in the 1970s to homeless policy issues, with HUD and City Councilmembers in the audience.
de Blasio
What’s Behind the Rise in City Homeless Shelter Numbers?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The rising shelter census reflects neither the success nor failure of the de Blasio administration’s approach, but rather a complex mix of promising new policies, lagging efforts and powerful market forces.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews:
Obama’s Ambitious Homelessness Plan is Totally Doomed, Totally Doable
Jeff Foreman |
The president’s 2017 budget proposal includes a proposal to end child homelessness. The proposal will go nowhere—even though it’s entirely doable and cheaper than what we are doing now.
Homelessness
CityViews:
How Law Enforcement Solutions Backfire on the Homeless
Norman Oder |
Sleeping on the train, putting feet up, and even public urination can’t be solved (only) by law enforcement.
Homelessness
Homeless Young Adults Can Fall through a Crack in Shelter System
Genia Gould |
Homeless people who age out of the shelters that serve teenagers face a difficult choice: enter the adult system in order to access the programs operated there’, or stay on the street where they might feel safer.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Homelessness Crisis Isn’t Just in the Shelters. It’s in our Schools.
Latoya Joyner |
A Bronx Assemblywoman writes: “The crisis of New York’s homeless youth has reached epidemic proportions with one out of every nine students in public schools experiencing homelessness within the past four school years.”
Bill de Blasio
No Backspace:
Fear and Loathing of Our Homeless Neighbors
Joel Berg |
Read our latest opinion blog: “Elite New Yorkers still treat homelessness as “a quality of life” issue for the non-homeless and still equate destitution with criminality.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Cuomo, De Blasio Could Deliver a Holiday Miracle for the Homeless
Laura Jervis and Marc L. Greenberg |
Faith leaders write that they are praying for the governor and mayor to come together on a massive supportive-housing initiative to continue a successful policy effort that began when another Cuomo and a different mayor found common ground.
