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Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carranza visit Pre-K and 3-K classrooms at P.S. 25, The Bilingual School, on April 9.
‘Homeless students have a unique set of educational, physical, and emotional needs which are not being addressed in any significant or systematic way.’
If neighborhoods don’t want the shelters New York City needs, make them a better offer like the one Mayor Koch developed during an earlier era’s housing emergency: promising that today’s shelter will be tomorrow’s community resource.
The popular “housing first” approach to addressing homeless has a lot of support—but not a lot of success when it comes to keeping families out of shelters over the long term, this author writes.
A new report finds black families are seven times more likely than whites to end up in the shelter system. For a minority group that’s faced official and informal housing discrimination, poverty is only part of the explanation.