The intensification of New York’s homeless crisis is one of the starkest examples of COVID’s impact in laying bare the deep inequalities across our city. Many of the vacant hotels-turned-shelters which the City created to support the unprecedented stress on our...
People often ask, “Is it illegal to be homeless?” The answer is not black or white, or all that simple. While technically, homelessness is not illegal, there are many, many laws and policies that criminalize homelessness, which then creates a legal process...
I enjoy posting questions on Quora.com because of all the different answers you get from people on any given topic. Yesterday I asked: “What would you do if you saw a homeless person being attacked by two teenagers when he or she was standing there minding their...
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