“The young people enduring these conditions are overwhelmingly low-income and from communities of color. Their suffering is not inevitable, and the City has immediate options it could act on today to improve conditions.”
“Esto solo ha debilitado nuestras comunidades locales y nuestra economía al perturbar nuestros barrios y a sus pequeños socios comerciales. Todo por motivos políticos. No necesitamos más perturbaciones como esta”, declaró la presidenta del Concejo, Adrienne Adams, el jueves en la alcaldía.
“This has only weakened our local communities and economy by disrupting our neighborhoods and their small business partners. All for politics. We don’t need any more of this disruption,” Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said at City Hall Thursday.
The City Council approved the lease of city land to build housing for the formerly incarcerated in the Bronx, over the objections of the local councilmember and City Hall. It’s the first time the Council has overruled one of their own on a land use issue since 2021.
After City Hall pulled its support for an East Bronx project to build supportive housing for seriously ill people leaving jail, City Council members are considering overruling one of their own.
A lawn sign outside homes on Seminole Avenue in Morris Park, where the "Just Home" project was planned, in 2021. The proposal is now…
En los últimos ocho meses, solo en el estado de Nueva York, en seis condados agencias de policía locales han firmado nueve acuerdos de colaboración con el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE por sus siglas en inglés) en el marco del programa federal 287(g). El número de acuerdos de este tipo se…
Over the last eight months in New York State alone, local law enforcement agencies have signed nine partnership agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the federal 287(g) program, encompassing six counties. The number of such agreements has exploded nationwide this year, with a total of 958 covering 40 states.
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The city’s latest budget includes funds to grow the number of apartments in the Justice-Involved Supportive Housing program (JISH) from 120 to 500. That expansion was among the commitments the city made in its 2019 agreement to close Rikers Island.
“A person who is unhoused before incarceration is no less vulnerable after release. But our current policy treats time in jail as if it erases their homelessness. It doesn’t—it makes it worse.”