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City Scrambling to Help Puerto Rican Storm Victims Tossed From FEMA Hotels
Claudia Irizarry-Aponte and Vanessa Colón-Almenas |
Eighty-six families have been asked to check out of their temporary housing hotels by the end of this week.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: New Chancellor Should Launch a Charter School for Homeless Students
Ralph da Costa Nunez |
‘Homeless students have a unique set of educational, physical, and emotional needs which are not being addressed in any significant or systematic way.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Counting the Homeless, and the Ways We All Fail Them
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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.’
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
From Jails to Jamaica Bay: 18 New York City Stories to Watch in 2018
Jarrett Murphy |
The election? Well, duh! The 2020 Census? Wait, huh?
CommunityWire
The Alliance for Positive Change Launches #PositiveHomes for the Holidays Campaign to Give New Yorkers a Fresh Start
anatgersteininc |
The Alliance is asking for support to raise $5,000 to fund #PositiveHomes kits, and has launched a fundraising site on Crowdrise.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Assembly Dem: So Far, City & State Steps to Protect Affordable Housing Aren’t Enough
Walter Mosley |
‘Tackling the problems of gentrification and displacement is going to require all of us,’ the assemblymember argues in an op-ed.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Queens House of Detention Could Be Refuge for the Homeless
Howard Schneider |
‘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.’
City Council
CityViews: Lives Could Be Saved if NYC’s Shelters Had Naloxone Training
Stephen Weltsek |
‘I share my story so that his death will not be in vain.’
Government
Fact-Check: Has De Blasio Really Moved 60,000 Homeless People Into Permanent Housing?
Jarrett Murphy |
The short answer is yes.
City Council
Queens Council Candidates Talk Rezoning, Homelessness, Transportation
David Brand |
In total, fifteen Democrats and one Republican attended the event, which included some pointed back-and-forth.
