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A new report finds black families are seven times more likely than whites to end up in the shelter system. For a minority group that’s faced official and informal housing…

ByRalph da Costa Nunez 45Comments

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Jan 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Feds Fall Down on Homeless Women Vets

The number of homeless women veterans tracked by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs has more than doubled in the past five years, but they are poorly served by existing…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Amid Court Fight, Formerly Homeless In Limbo

The end of the Advantage subsidy program leaves advocates battling to salvage a policy they criticized, the city bracing for more demand for scarce shelter beds and low-income families wondering…

ByDaniel Prendergast 0Comments

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Jan 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Plan Calls for Longer Shelter Stays

A new report on homelessness in New York calls for some shelter residents to be housed for a year to 18 months, so they can get the time and resources…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2011

Housing and Homelessness

Winter Raises Stakes for Homeless in Greenpoint

Community opposition hasn’t stopped plans for a large shelter in the waterfront neighborhood, where five homeless people have been found dead in the past 15 months.

ByJay Honstetter 0Comments

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Sep 2011

Housing and Homelessness

Read It: Court Backs City Cut of Homeless Program

A state judge ruled that New York can end a rent-subsidy program for formerly homeless people that lost its state and federal funding.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2011

Economy Government

One Woman's Plan to Beat Poverty

Beverly Davis has a full-time job, a family she supports and a college course to complete. She has plans to become a police officer. Public benefits are essential to her…

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Jul 2011

Government

From Blue-Collar to the Welfare Line

Walter Greene worked for a living. Then the work disappeared. Now, like thousands of other low-income New Yorkers, he navigates homeless shelter rules and the welfare bureaucracy.

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Jun 2011

Uncategorized

AIDS Program Cuts Stir Protest

Advocates are speaking out against proposed cuts to programs that feed and house people living with HIV/AIDS.

ByJohann Hamilton 0Comments

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May 2011

Education Government

The Principal Is New. The School Is Closing.

With new boss Dennis Walcott, the city school system gets a new chance to improve relations with parents and teachers. But there’ll be no second chance for Robeson High in…

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

Homelessness: It’s About Race, Not Just Poverty

Feds Fall Down on Homeless Women Vets

Amid Court Fight, Formerly Homeless In Limbo

Plan Calls for Longer Shelter Stays

Winter Raises Stakes for Homeless in Greenpoint

Read It: Court Backs City Cut of Homeless Program

One Woman's Plan to Beat Poverty

From Blue-Collar to the Welfare Line

AIDS Program Cuts Stir Protest

The Principal Is New. The School Is Closing.

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