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Housing Update: Segregation Studied, Secret Talks Held, Demolition Protested
Harry DiPrinzio |
Your weekly update of housing news from around the city.
Your weekly update of housing news from around the city.
‘We have the opportunity to change the course for homeless New Yorkers and those on the brink of homelessness and we need to act now.’
‘Out of the 300,000 units of affordable housing in his plan, the mayor has committed only 15,000 units—five percent—for the homeless.’
Eighty-six families have been asked to check out of their temporary housing hotels by the end of this week.
‘Homeless students have a unique set of educational, physical, and emotional needs which are not being addressed in any significant or systematic way.’
A stint volunteering on the annual HOPE tally of the street homeless ‘made me stop thinking about homelessness as one big crisis and forced me instead to see what it really is: 70,000 individual crises.’
The election? Well, duh! The 2020 Census? Wait, huh?
The Alliance is asking for support to raise $5,000 to fund #PositiveHomes kits, and has launched a fundraising site on Crowdrise.
‘Tackling the problems of gentrification and displacement is going to require all of us,’ the assemblymember argues in an op-ed.
‘At some point a mayoral administration that is in earnest about carrying out its agenda has to resolve that it won’t pander to any given neighborhood’s more sinister instincts.’