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state budget

Housing and Homelessness

New York’s $220 Billion Budget Light on Solutions to Homelessness, Critics Say

By David Brand | April 8, 2022

“It’s pretty dreadful,” one housing advocate said. “The governor decided to-go drinks and a stadium in Buffalo were more important than housing the homeless and marginalized New Yorkers.” 

Health and Environment

$7 Million Settlement Marks Latest in New York’s Home Health Care Crackdown

By Liz Donovan | March 31, 2022

The settlement comes as legislators and organizers in New York rally for proposed legislation called Fair Pay for Home Care, which would increase the minimum wage for home healthcare workers by 150 percent. 

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: To Increase Public Safety, New York Must Invest in Families

By Jennifer March | March 29, 2022

“We must reject efforts to roll back Raise the Age and stop scapegoating children and youth for the decades-long failure of government to invest equitably in them and their communities in the first place.”

state budget

NY Lawmakers Propose $250M to Launch Section 8-Style Rent Subsidy

By David Brand | March 13, 2022

The State Senate and Assembly included a quarter-billion dollars to fund the Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP), which would create a new rent voucher for New Yorkers experiencing or at-risk of homelessness—including immigrants without legal status—with values pegged to fair market rent levels.

New York State legislature

Expanding Child Care Subsidies Would Lift 84K New Yorkers Out of Poverty, Report Finds

By Jeanmarie Evelly | February 24, 2022

The findings, released by anti-poverty nonprofit Robin Hood and Columbia University’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy, examined the impact of the Early Learning Child Care Act, which would institute a payroll tax to fund child care subsidies for families with children under 3 years old.

Opinion

Opinion: NY Can Address Immigration Court Backlog by Funding Legal Services

By Catalina Cruz and Brad Hoylman | February 23, 2022

“There is currently no right to public defense in immigration proceedings, but having a lawyer to navigate this notoriously complicated system advances the cause of justice.”

Government

How Will New York State’s Budget Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis?

By Julian Roberts-Grmela | February 15, 2022

Youth and advocates are optimistic, saying Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget takes important steps to expand resources, but that more needs to be done to make up for years of ‘chronic underfunding’ across the system.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: New York State Must Hold Nonpublic Schools Accountable on Secular Education

By Michael Sussman | February 10, 2022

 ‘New York State allows millions of dollars to flow into private schools without any measures to ensure students actually receive a secular education. New legislation aims to fix this issue.’

COVID-19

Ready Your Documents: What to Know to Apply for New York Rent Relief

By David Brand | May 17, 2021

It’s not yet clear when the state’s latest COVID-19 rent relief program will open to applicants, though officials are expecting it to launch by the end of May. In the meantime, tenant advocates and housing rights groups are gearing up to help thousands of renters compile and submit the forms necessary to apply for the assistance.

housing

NYS Budget on Housing: Rent Relief Victory, Disappointment on NYCHA and Homelessness

By Sadef Ali Kully | April 14, 2021

While housing advocates say the budget deal included a major victory for tenants––creating a multi-billion dollar program for rent relief––it included less funds for NYCHA and homelessness prevention than stakeholders had hoped for.

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