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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.

Ralph da Costa Nunez

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

CityViews: New Chancellor Should Launch a Charter School for Homeless Students

By Ralph da Costa Nunez | April 12, 2018

‘Homeless students have a unique set of educational, physical, and emotional needs which are not being addressed in any significant or systematic way.’

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

CityViews: Homelessness Crisis Demands a New Kind of Shelter—Not More Hotel Rooms

By Ralph da Costa Nunez | January 26, 2017

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.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Op-ed: Rapid Rehousing No Silver Bullet Against Family Homelessness

By Ralph da Costa Nunez | June 9, 2015

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.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Homelessness: It’s About Race, Not Just Poverty

By Ralph da Costa Nunez | March 5, 2012

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.

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