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Opinion: Home Stability Support Needed Now to Boost Rental Assistance Amid COVID-19

‘HSS would ensure that our state’s most vulnerable residents can continue to afford rent and remain in secure homes in these uncertain times and even after the current eviction moratorium…

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Opinion: Youth Homeless Are Falling Through Cracks in COVID-19 Response

‘Providers have had to close four drop-in centers, some have rolled services back to the most basic pieces, and still others have ceased overnight hours.’

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Opinion: COVID is a Reason to Double Down on the Green Economy

‘First and foremost, government should focus on its real-time response to COVID-19. But we must simultaneously prepare for the next crisis. We can do both. ‘

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Opinion: Amid the COVID Crisis, Closing the Digital Divide is More Urgent Than Ever

‘The Coronavirus crisis presents a critical chance in addressing the opportunity gap that limits Black and Latino youth from low income communities from entering the growing tech sector in New…

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Opinion: Bail Reform is About Keeping my Neighbors Home

‘It is brutal to remove people from their families and subject them to the cruel punishment of incarceration while they are supposedly ‘presumed innocent.’ ‘

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Opinion: Taxing the Rich Can Help New York Fight Coronavirus

‘Make no mistake: budget cuts to healthcare won’t reduce the spread of coronavirus or lessen its impact. In fact, as we have seen in Washington state, cuts that…

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Opinion: This Health Crisis is a Hunger Crisis, Too

‘Unless government takes immediate, bold action, food-insecure Americans will be hit even harder, and their troubles will likely extend long beyond the life of the epidemic.’

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Opinion: The Rights of Three-Quarter House Residents Still Don’t Matter

A recent court ruling ‘is just the latest in a storied history of a systemic disregard for the dignity and humanity of people who live in three-quarter houses.’

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Opinion: Sunnyside Yards Master Plan Sits on a Deck of Myths

‘Decking over the180 acres of these rail yards isn’t the answer to the challenges facing Queens residents.’

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Opinion: Funding for Public Financing is Essential to Fight for Equality in NYS

‘It’s also important to note that the governor did not include any funding for a reform fundamental to all of these issues: the state’s new public financing program.’

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