Homeless Study Has Some Upset
New York City wants to know whether homeless prevention programs are serving the right people, so it's conducting a study that has some elected officials upset.By providing rental assistance, job...
View ArticleCouncil Members Call Homeless Experiment Unethical
Some city council members are expressing outrage at a homeless prevention study that is denying certain families services.Four hundred families were enrolled in the experiment between June and...
View ArticleAfter The Storm, Extra Help For The Homeless
For homeless New Yorkers, finding shelter from the elements can be a life or death situation.On Wednesday, the Department of Homeless Services re-issued the code blue for the homeless. A code blue...
View ArticleCity to Stop Paying Rent for Thousands of Formerly Homeless
The Department of Homeless Services announced on its web site Friday that it will not pay February rents for at least 9,000 formerly homeless families and individuals currently receiving rental...
View ArticleOne-Third of US Homeless Population is Obese, According to New Study
New research by Oxford University and Harvard Medical School, soon to be published in the Journal of Urban Health, suggests that 32.3 percent of the homeless population in the United States is obese —...
View ArticleMeet Gilbert Taylor, New York's New Homelessness Chief
Michael Bloomberg’s policies on homelessness were driven by a focus on statistics and incentives. But while he was Mayor, the number of people without a home grew to more than 50,000. Now there’s a new...
View ArticleA (Bad) New Record High: Homelessness
The number of homeless people housed in city shelters hit a new high this week. Commissioner of the Department of Homeless Services, Gilbert Taylor discusses what the agency is doing to reduce...
View ArticleStemming New York City's 'Inherited' Homelessness Problem
Steven Banks, commissioner of NYC's Human Resources Administration and former head of the Legal Aid Society, talks about his department's role in fighting New York City's surge in homelessness.Banks...
View ArticleShelter Provider Got Millions From the City — With No Contract
The Bushwick Economic Development Corporation, which was operating the Bronx apartment where two children died this month, took in $11 million a year from the city for so-called cluster-site services,...
View ArticleCity Sues One Of Its Top Homeless Shelter Operators
Authorities say a nonprofit that's received $500 million to provide housing to homeless families has been defrauding the city. Childrens Community Services has been providing emergency shelters and...
View ArticleChecking in on Mayor Adams' Approach to Homelessness
Mayor Adams has been in office for about eight months, and since then the homeless population has risen. David Brand, senior reporter and editor covering housing and homelessness at City Limits, checks...
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