Homelessness
Thousands of NYC’s Homeless Parents were Recently Kids Themselves
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Parents account for the majority of homeless unaccompanied New Yorkers under age 25, according to city data,
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
NYC Has a Family Homelessness Crisis. Who are the Families?
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Policymakers and most everyday New Yorkers have yet to come face-to-face with the extent of the crisis, even as mass instability takes a lasting toll on individual lives and social networks in the city.
Housing and Development
Housing Update: One in Ten Public School Students Experienced Homelessness
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Landlords that wanted to raise rents are falling behind. Housing Works employees are unhappy with their working conditions. And tenants put their landlords on trial.
Homelessness
Top De Blasio Official: ‘We’ve Been Able to Break the Trajectory of Homelessness’
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‘For the first time in a decade, the DHS shelter census is flat and actually trending downward,’ Steven Banks, the commissioner of the Department of Social Services, told the Max & Murphy Show.
Agenda 2019
Opinion: Will NY State Take a First Step Toward Ending Homelessness?
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‘The governor and state legislature now have the opportunity to do something to help the people most at risk of homelessness.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Homelessness Crisis Isn’t Just in the Shelters. It’s in our Schools.
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A Bronx Assemblywoman writes: “The crisis of New York’s homeless youth has reached epidemic proportions with one out of every nine students in public schools experiencing homelessness within the past four school years.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
It’s Delusional to Say Homelessness is a Mental-Health Issue
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Some homeless people do suffer from mental illness or substance abuse. But contrary to an increasingly popular canard, the problem for most of New York’s homeless is not in their heads, but in their wallets.