Housing and Homelessness
What Happened This Week in NYC Housing? Feb. 21, 2025
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Each Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.
Government
Council Bill Looks to Simplify City’s Supportive Housing Application
Jeanmarie Evelly |
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 VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Building the Type of Housing New York Needs the Most
Perry Perlmutter |
“We must build upon the newfound flexibility provided by City of Yes by making direct, meaningful investments in supportive housing.”
Government
Bill Would Make It Easier for New Yorkers Leaving Jail to Qualify for Supportive Housing
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Manhattan City Councilmember Carlina Rivera introduced legislation Wednesday that would expand eligibility criteria for city-funded supportive housing to include people with justice system involvement in the last year—a change long sought by advocates, who say it would increase options for New Yorkers cycling between jail and shelter.
Bronx
City’s Public Hospitals Mark Milestone in Surprising Role: Housing Patients
Jeanmarie Evelly |
NYC Health + Hospitals says it’s found permanent homes for more than 1,200 of its patients and their families, both through supportive housing placements and in affordable apartments on its own land. The marker comes as the mayor directs all city agencies to examine their property holdings for places to build new housing.
Housing and Homelessness
Will NYC Make it Easier to Find a Home After Jail?
Emma Whitford |
Funding sought in this year’s budget, alongside updated eligibility criteria, could increase housing options for New Yorkers cycling between jail and shelter.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Securing the Future of New York’s Supportive Housing
Pascale Leone |
“New York is a national model of supportive housing, which has been proven time and again to be among the most successful methods of ending chronic homelessness. But the system has grown unwieldy, thanks to the vast disparities in available services, funding, and unit maintenance.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: For a More Equitable Supportive Housing Workforce, Promote From Within
Chinetta Mitchell and Chandra Redfern |
“Black New Yorkers are disproportionately affected by homelessness, making up 58 percent of shelter residents; 80 percent of the workers caring for these individuals are women of color, yet the top ranks of the organizations that employ them and set organizational policies are overwhelmingly white.”
Health and Environment
‘A Failure of Our Policies’: Vigil Honors New Yorkers Who Experienced Homelessness
Emma Whitford |
“Let us keep in front of mind that these were people who had hopes, dreams and stories,” said George Nashak, CEO of Care for the Homeless.
Bronx
Plan to House Formerly-Incarcerated Inches Forward in the East Bronx
Emma Whitford |
The “Just Home” proposal to house seriously ill people leaving jail cleared one of its final procedural hurdles at a heated public hearing, where locals repeatedly testified that they feared for their safety.
