Last year, 640 unhoused people died in shelters, hospitals or the streets, 4 percent higher than in 2020, when COVID-19 first struck New York City. The rise in fatalities was…
Banks, the first head of the city’s Department Social Services, said he would be departing at the end of the year to take a job as special counsel at a Manhattan-based…
Source of income discrimination constitutes the most common form of illegal housing bias in NYC. Yet the city has only a handful of attorneys and staffers at the two agencies…
‘At HRA, under what is ostensibly one of the most progressive administrations in the nation, people who are poor are simply not treated with the dignity, humanity, and respect they…
