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Family homelessness

Housing and Homelessness
PATH Center

NYC Eased Rules for Families Entering Homeless Shelters. Advocates Want the Changes Made Permanent

David Brand | October 4, 2021

Prior to the pandemic, city policy forced entire families—including each school-aged child—to show up at a Bronx facility known as the PATH intake center to complete an initial assessment, which often meant missing at least a day of school.

Housing and Homelessness

Formerly Homeless Families in Harlem Still Without Gas or Hot Water, as Cold Weather Returns

David Brand | September 30, 2021

Con Edison cut the gas to the West 145th Street building—a former cluster site shelter housing dozens of formerly homeless families—on May 14, after inspectors found dangerous corrosion on the line leading to the street. Tenants are still waiting.

Housing and Homelessness

NYC Children Have Longer Stays in Shelter, Even as Family Homelessness Declines

David Brand | September 24, 2021

Families with children now spend nearly 18 months on average in Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelters—two and half months longer than the previous fiscal year, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s annual management report.

A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis

Opinion: Every Level of Government Must Step Up to Address Family Homelessness

Catherine Trapani and Kim Maloney | June 24, 2021

‘We need to strengthen the safety-net for families at risk of homelessness, and make sure that even as people get jobs they don’t lose their rental assistance.’

Housing and Homelessness

Hotel Shelter Closure Scatters Families in Search of Permanent Homes

David Brand | June 15, 2021

The 40 or so families living at the Hotel Ellington in Manhattan, where the city has been paying for rooms to house homeless New Yorkers for nearly two decades, were told late last month they would have to move. “I’m tired of moving,” one tenant said.

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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio

Mayor’s Proposed Budget Misses ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ Opportunity to Tackle NYC Homelessness

David Brand | May 11, 2021

The chair of the council’s welfare committee says New York City is squandering a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity to address its homelessness crisis, despite an executive budget that would boost Department of Social Services (DSS) funding by nearly $1.2 billion.

Family homelessness

Opinion: NYC’s Next Mayor Must Seek ‘Transformative’ Solutions to Address Family Homelessness Crisis

Raysa Rodriguez, Michelle Mulcahy, Nicole Branca | May 5, 2021

‘The next mayor will inherit this crisis but has a tremendous opportunity with incoming federal funds and a wealth of experienced and committed providers, developers, and advocacy and philanthropic organizations to work with, to transform the city’s housing and homelessness policies and meet the needs of our struggling families.’

Election 2021

What Would NYC’s Mayoral Candidates Do About Homelessness? Let’s Go to the Video

Jarrett Murphy | May 3, 2021

Homelessness survivors played a lead role in creating a video voters’ guide on family homelessness starring Eric Adams, Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia, Ray McGuire, Dianne Morales and Scott Stringer.

Family homelessness

Shafted in State Budget, Homeless Advocates Push City to Increase Value of Rental Vouchers

Jeanmarie Evelly | April 26, 2021

After the state budget deal failed to include a proposal for an Albany-funded rental voucher system, advocates are setting their sights on getting the City Council to pass Intro 146, which would increase the value of rental vouchers under the CityFHEPS program to better reflect market-rate rents.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC’s Next Mayor Must Focus on Eradicating Child Homelessness

Mirtha Santana and Erasma Beras-Monticciolo | April 14, 2021

‘New York State could receive $23 billion as part of the ARPA, representing a once-in-a-lifetime financial base to significantly reduce childhood homelessness, a condition that often sets up the cycle for homelessness as an adult.’

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