Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
It's not as bad as it sounds, these Upper West Siders swear.
It's nothing personal, nothing against the homeless. It's just, the area is so flooded with supportive housing, adding another shelter will overwhelm the Manhattan Valley neighborhood, as DNAinfo reports.
Nonprofit Samaritan Village wants to open the homeless facility in a building that currently houses the Read More
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio thinks the city's latest solution to homelessness might only make things worse.
The New York Times today painted a pretty grim picture of the city’s struggles with rent subsidies and vouchers, and the public advocate's office told The Observer says the city's newest approach may be counterproductive.
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The growth of tent settlements in California and elsewhere is one of the saddest developments in this season of sadness. As President Barack Obama recently observed, “It is not acceptable for children and families to be without a roof over their heads in a country as wealthy as ours.” Here in New York City successive Read More
A couple months later, Mr. Fleming again finds himself facing the Read More
Activists plan to rally at noon on Saturday outside controversial hotelier Hank Freid's Broadway Studios on the Upper West Side to "denounce the continued operation of illegal hotels" by "scamlords" citywide.
"We are targeting Hank Freid as an egregious illegal hotelier ... with a particularly insidious past," organizer Yarrow Willman-Cole told The Observer. Read More
The Bloomberg administration announced today that street homelessness in New York City dropped 12 percent since 2007 and 25 percent since 2005. The city has an estimated ratio of 1 unsheltered homeless person to every 2,485 people in the general population.
