Several Hundred NYPD Cops In Riot Gear Clear Out A Protest Encampment Overnight
ayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday said the decision to move protesters out of City Hall Park during the early morning hours had been in the works for the past few weeks. During his daily briefing, the mayor said NYPD officers were sent in because...
Tacoma to Spend COVID-19 Money on New $1M Homeless Village. Residents Move in This Week.
he city of Tacoma will use $775,667 in COVID-19 CARES Act funding to help pay for an expanded shelter serving people experiencing homelessness at East 60th Street and McKinley Avenue. City Council approved an amended contract Tuesday with the Low...
New York City’s Public Housing Rules Could Force Many Released Prisoners Into Homelessness
As thousands of people are freed from local jails, a group of nonprofits and activist organizations says the city's housing authority must revamp its policies that banish the formerly incarcerated. ecause of the coronavirus pandemic, the...
In Virginia, Summer Heat Is Endangering Local Homeless Population Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
ormally the Day Center at Union Ministries on a sweltering summer day is full. Those without shelter are usually there cooling off enjoying a hot meal and a cold drink. "Our role here since 1892 is to serve those who are most vulnerable on the...
Community Activists: Add Homelessness To The Growing List Of Things Spiking In New York City
cross Manhattan, many New Yorkers are noticing a spike in homelessness. People are sleeping on the streets and in other cases hotels as part of the city’s coronavirus program, CBS2’s Andrea Grymes reported Wednesday. Under scaffolding near the...
Looming Evictions May Soon Make 28 Million Homeless in U.S., Expert Says
Emily Benfer began her career representing homeless families in Washington, D.C. Her first case involved a family that had been evicted after complaining to their landlord about the holes in their roof. One of the times she met with the family, one of the children, a...
Why You Aren’t Homeless: How Privilege & Fortune Shape the Shelter Census
honda Jackson never really thought about becoming homeless until, one day, she was. Jackson and her children were living with her grandmother, who she cared for in the family’s Springfield Gardens home. But when her grandmother died, Jackson and...
How Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan?
That’s the number of homeless youths in America every year. This opinion piece is about the 4.2 million, how and why we marginalize them, and what can be done to unmarginalize them. To convey the seriousness of this problem, this...
‘It’s Heartbreaking’: Why So Much Homelessness in the East Village?
“The East Village has become unsafe,” tweeted @kernie_sanders in a message to Mayor Bill de Blasio in late June. “I have never seen such desperation.” Already estimated at over 1,000 prior to Covid-19, the homeless population in the East Village and Lower East Side...
COVID-19 Hit New York City Homeless Shelters Hard, But Some Are Forced To Stay There
Many city residents who’ve served time for sexual crimes have families who want them back, but a 19-year-old law keeps them away. uke Steele, 54, is glad to be an essential worker even if it means almost no life apart from his job at...
