Federal money and innovative housing-first programs have provided much needed support for the nation’s half-million homeless. But with the pandemic continuing, helping this vulnerable population will remain a challenge. More than half a million Americans are homeless,...
Rent is due this weekend, and with the federal moratorium on evictions expired, millions won’t be able to pay. The federal moratorium on evictions expired last Friday, ending protections for nearly 12 million Americans. This Friday, 25 million people...
Mayor 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 the protest movement...
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. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the population of...
“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...
Pandemic Exacerbates Challenges of Homelessness It’s one thing to “shelter in place” when you have a place to go. It’s quite another thing to be homeless, like many families and children in Ulster County, and have no space of your own during a...
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