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Mayor de Blasio’s plan to build 90 new homeless shelters around the city has encountered fierce opposition in several neighborhoods. Opponents in different communities point to different reasons for resisting…

ByJarrett Murphy 5Comments

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Jul 2019

Housing Update: Landlords Push Back, NYCHA Budget Doesn’t Budge, Bay St. Rezoning Approved

Housing headlines you might have missed.

ByHarry DiPrinzio 0Comments

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Jun 2019

Housing and Homelessness

What’s it Like Growing Older in the NYC Homeless Shelter System?

For senior citizens and the disabled, life in the shelters—and the effort to exit to a permanent home—bring unique challenges.

ByRoshan Abraham 5Comments

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May 2019

Housing and Homelessness

Housing Update: Segregation Studied, Secret Talks Held, Demolition Protested

Your weekly update of housing news from around the city.

ByHarry DiPrinzio 0Comments

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Nov 2018

Housing and Homelessness

Council Weighs Mandating Developers to Create Housing for the Homeless

‘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.’

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Oct 2018

Opinion

CityViews: De Blasio has no Comprehensive Plan to Rehouse the Homeless

‘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.’

ByPaulette Soltani 6Comments

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Apr 2018

Housing and Homelessness Justice

City Scrambling to Help Puerto Rican Storm Victims Tossed From FEMA Hotels

Eighty-six families have been asked to check out of their temporary housing hotels by the end of this week.

ByClaudia Irizarry-Aponte

ByVanessa Colón-Almenas 3Comments

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Apr 2018

Opinion

CityViews: New Chancellor Should Launch a Charter School for Homeless Students

‘Homeless students have a unique set of educational, physical, and emotional needs which are not being addressed in any significant or systematic way.’

ByRalph da Costa Nunez 7Comments

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Jan 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Counting the Homeless, and the Ways We All Fail Them

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…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Dec 2017

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