Month: March 2016

Struggling with poverty is hard enough on its own, but many of America’s poor now face an array of costs that wealthier citizens often don’t incur. Take the rise of for-profit probation companies, which more than 1,000 courts across the U.S. use. T ..Read More

On East 11th Street between Avenues B and C in New York City’s East Village, the line for the Father’s Heart food pantry wraps around the block. On cold winter days, people bundle up in puffer coats to hold their place; they might be outside, standing stil ..Read More

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio scored a big win for his affordable housing plan on Tuesday when the City Council approved controversial zoning changes. But that was after protesters disrupted a roll call vote on two measures – Mandatory Inclusionary Hous ..Read More

At least 212 homeless people, including seven infants under the age of one year, died in New York City from a variety of causes included drug overdoses, heart failure, and exposure to the cold during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2015. The statistics ..Read More

ALBANY — The head of the city Human Resources Administration was in Albany Tuesday to lobby to include domestic violence victims in a state rental assistance program designed to prevent homelessness. Steve Banks also was pushing to raise the rental assistanc ..Read More

No doubt about it: The crime statistics in New York City look rosy. But Mayor Bill de Blasio is not in a good position to boast — not when people are living on the streets and subways because they don’t want to be robbed, stabbed, beaten or killed in homel ..Read More

We have been examining violence and drugs saturated city homeless shelters all week. In the final piece of our series, Unsafe Haven, we look at how these reports flew under the radar for so long. How will the city make sure it doesn’t happen again? NY1&# ..Read More

Raymond Goynes went uptown to see Sonja one last time on March 8, a sunny Tuesday morning. He let himself into her owner’s penthouse duplex in Hell’s Kitchen. Sonja, an 11-year-old wheaten terrier, was sprawled on the wool kilim rug in the living room. Her ..Read More

The web of new subsidy and rental assistance programs City Hall has put in place since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office to help homeless New Yorkers get out of shelters and into permanent housing is showing signs of sputtering to life, Human Resources Administ ..Read More