by BFTS | Dec 6, 2020 | Community, Opinion
Democratic NYC Mayoral Candidate Suggests Housing Homeless In Daily News Offices One Democratic mayoral hopeful has a novel idea for easing the city’s homeless crisis — housing them in the vacated offices of the Daily News. The tabloid...
by BFTS | Nov 29, 2020 | Opinion
Hell’s Kitchen sits in the center of Manhattan, the heart of New York City. Pre-pandemic, the commuters and tourists who walked our streets would see a mix of people who are well-to-do, middle class and, in some cases, down on their luck. What many would not have...
by BFTS | Nov 18, 2020 | Opinion
New York is not dead, but tens of thousands of apartments here are empty. This presents an unprecedented opportunity to house every New Yorker experiencing homelessness. As a city, we have a moral mandate to permanently house our homeless now. We can do so by creating...
by BFTS | Nov 1, 2020 | Opinion
How Do We Treat a Homeless Person That Doesn’t Want The “Right Kind Of Help”? What is the “Right Kind Of Help”? I came across this thread on Quora.com and found the answers to interesting. What do you think? ...
by BFTS | Oct 28, 2020 | Insight, Opinion
The playful suggestion accompanied a more serious demand by protesters, who asked the city to raise rental assistance voucher amounts. In the shadow of the city’s newest, shiniest skyscraper complex, homeless New Yorkers and housing...
by BFTS | Sep 17, 2020 | Opinion
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...
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