NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker
Release Date:
09/11/2017
In response to historic criticism that shelters had opened overnight with little community oversight, the de Blasio administration has pledged to increase transparency into the process.
Housing and Homelessness
City Council to Consider Expanding Stays at Shelters for Runaway and Homeless Teens, Young Adults
Release Date:
09/08/2017
Homeless and runaway youth would be able to stay longer in the city’s crisis shelters under new legislation that will be introduced in the City Council Thursday.
Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not Have Condos, Says Borough President
Release Date:
09/05/2017
After hearing from “thousands of community voices” on the redevelopment of the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams released his recommendations for the embattled project.
Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment
Release Date:
08/31/2017
Mayor de Blasio signed into law a package of 18 bills aimed at protecting tenants whose landlords use construction as a form of harassment Wednesday.
Opinion: How A Pied-À-Terre Tax Could Help Solve New York City's Housing Crisis
Release Date:
08/31/2017
Rent burdens, overcrowding, homelessness and essentially every other indicator of housing stress are at the highest level in modern history and continue to climb. To change these trends, we primarily need to build more homes not just in New York...
Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing
Release Date:
08/31/2017
The city is seeking proposals to transform the site of the former Greenpoint Hospital — shuttered since 1982 — into hundreds of units of affordable housing, Mayor de Blasio will announce Wednesday night.
Bad Landlords Poised To Profit On De Blasio Plan To Turn Rent-Stabilized Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters
Release Date:
08/30/2017
The Department of Homeless Services is quietly finalizing more than $98 million in contracts that would turn five apartment buildings currently part of the notoriously mismanaged cluster site program into homeless shelters, and maintain six more as...
Nonprofit Supporting NYCHA Adds to Early Fundraising & Programs
Release Date:
08/29/2017
More than a year-and-a-half after the Fund for Public Housing officially began soliciting donors, the nonprofit has raised approximately $1.5 million, according to New York City Housing Authority Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye.
Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Over the years, the original Fair Share Criteria have been found to be non-transparent and filled with loopholes that city officials and agencies continue to exploit to this day, particularly when it comes to homeless shelter siting.
As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored
Release Date:
08/29/2017
As Texas mobilizes in response to the unprecedented floods of Hurricane Harvey, Staten Island Borough President James Oddo said government officials still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
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