The application, dubbed form 2010E, can take months to complete and requires prospective tenants to provide their medication and hospitalization history and show proof of homelessness, as well as a recent psychiatric evaluation.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Each Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
“Yes, we are seeing more people on the streets, and many of them are in crisis. But unless we deal with the root causes of homelessness, we are just going to be looking at a revolving door of incarceration and hospitalizations that only exacerbate the problem.”
With frigid weather in the forecast this week, City Limits spoke to Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park about what Code Blue entails, and what it means for people experiencing homelessness.
Child advocates worry that the city’s school system does not efficiently track migrant students, including those who’ve been living at the tent shelter complex in East Brooklyn that’s closing this week.
Among Mayor Eric Adams’ promises for the year ahead: 900 new Safe Haven shelter beds, a plan to build 100,000 new units in Manhattan, and a program to connect unhoused expectant parents with homes.
“Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day” has taken place every December for more than 20 years. The event serves both to remember and mourn those who died, and as a stark reminder of how homelessness is also a health crisis, its organizers say.
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