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Homelessness

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Bloomberg Budget Slashes Homeless Youth Funding By $7 Million: Advocates

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg released his budget yesterday, and it's not a pretty read for children. According to Council Speaker Christine Quinn, it could axe 42,000 slots for childcare. Also, according to a press release from the Ali Forney Center, it will wreak havoc on the number of beds available f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Jeff Stier Explains Why Mike Bloomberg's a Salt Bully -- Despite What Mayor's Office Tells The Voice

    Yesterday, we walked down the Bowery and took an extremely unscientific poll to find out how New York's homeless population feels about Mayor Mike Bloomberg's crusade to keep the city's hobos from ingesting salt by not allowing do-gooders to donate food to city-run homeless shelters (because the cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Mike Bloomberg and The Sodium Patrol: 10 Out Of 10 Homeless New Yorkers Agree Mayor's "Ban" On Food Donations Is Bunk

    It was reported last month that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has taken it upon himself to make sure Gotham's homeless don't have too much salt in their diets by banning donations to city-run food shelters because the government can't monitor the salt content of the donated food.When we first c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Homeless Activists Sleep Outside Erik Martin Dilan's Office Demanding Vacant Building Survey

    "We always pick rainy, cold nights for these actions," Sam Miller pointed very early this morning on Norwood Avenue, near the Brooklyn/Queens border far out on the J train. Indeed, though it had felt like summer just the day before, you could see your breath as about twenty members of Picture the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    New York Has More Vacant Buildings and Lots Than It Has Homeless People

    New York City has more than enough vacant space to provide housing for every homeless person in the city, according to a study released yesterday by Picture the Homeless and Hunter College. The study represents the first effort to catalog New York's vacant spaces, and includes a survey of community ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Queer Rising Gets Arrested, Other LGBT Activists Pile on Cuomo Over Homeless Youth Funding in Budget

    The activists over at Queer Rising, who got arrested again and again and again during the past couple of years fighting for marriage equality, took it to the streets yesterday and initiated their first encounter of 2012 with handcuffs in front of Governor Andrew Cuomo's midtown office. According ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Record Level of Homelessness Reported in NYC

    NewsOne​Coalition for the Homeless, an organization that develops cost-effective strategies to end mass homelessness in NYC, released their annual report today. According to the report, homelessness increased 8% in the past year, and has gone up 34% since Mayor Bloomberg took office in 2002.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Charged with Disorderly Conduct (by Homeless New Yorkers), Voice Series Cited

    ​Picture the Homeless, a social justice organization for and of New York City's homeless, rallied outside police headquarters this morning to issue Commissioner Raymond Kelly a "ticket" for Disorderly Conduct -- a charge often unfairly used, they argue, to arrest the homeless. Jean Rice, a ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Opponents of Homeless in Bronx Apartment Building Lose a Round in Court

    Sandi Lusk​The Bronx merchants' group that unsuccessfully sued the Department of Homeless Services for quietly entering into an agreement to rent units in a brand new apartment building tried last week to make the city do a study and hold a hearing before letting the homeless in. The judge reb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    New Bronx Homeless Shelter Upheld Despite Lack of Community Hearings

    Sandi Lusk​A Bronx neighborhood lost the latest round in a legal fight against the city's Department of Homeless Services for quietly putting a homeless shelter in a new apartment building. Bronx State Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey D. Wright dismissed a lawsuit against the city agency lodged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Frigid Outside and No Room at Homeless Inns

    Bloomberg 3: No more Mr. Nice Guy​The temperature's dipping into the low 30s today, so we can be can be sure to get more glimpses of life in the Age of Bloomberg like this one, as described in the Legal Aid lawsuit filed yesterday seeking a new court order to force the city to house the homele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    United Homeless Organization a Scam, Says Cuomo

    ​The United Homeless Organization -- the non-profit group which, since 1993, has been setting up tables on street corners throughout the city and soliciting money with those ubiquitous plastic UHO water jugs -- is a fraud, according to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is suing the group, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2009

    Drop-in center threatened by city transit plans

    ​The Port Authority has announced plans to evict the Open Door Drop In Center, which provides showers and health services for homeless people, to make way for either the planned westward extension of the 7 line or additional space for bus terminal employees, depending who you ask.

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Weekly Rallies Continue Against Bloomberg Homeless Move-Ins; Thompson Joins Fight

    When the city quietly transformed a brand-new Bronx building into an emergency homeless shelter in August, it incited a lawsuit and a blitz of rallies. Last Saturday -- the fifth in a series of Saturday protests that, organizers say, with continue up through the election -- more than two dozen an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Bum's Rush: City Sends Homeless to Paris, Florida, Etc. to Save Money

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 18, 2009

    Bloomberg's Homeless Pledges Fell Far Short

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    No More Court Control for Homeless Services, Says City

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2008

    Are The Homeless, Like Everyone Else, Moving to Brooklyn?

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    More People are Homeless Now Than When Bloomberg Took Office: Report

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2008

    Street Homelessness on the Decline, Bloomberg Says

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2007

    Why Are There 1,723 Vacant Buildings in Manhattan?

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2007

    Stupid Shit: Turducken for the Cats?

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    CBGB: Dead One Year

    ​Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>

  • News

    August 21, 2007

    Bloomberg Charges the Homeless Rent

    The mayor does what his predecessor always wanted to: charge for shelter stays

  • News

    June 13, 2006

    Out of the Shelter, Into the Fire

    New city program for homeless: Keep your job or keep your apartment

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2006

    Spat Over Homeless Stats

    New city program for homeless: Keep your job or keep your apartment

  • News

    February 28, 2006

    Bum Wrap

    On the night of the city's homeless census, street people count

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2006

    TV Ads Slap Bloomberg

    On the night of the city's homeless census, street people count

  • People

    October 25, 2005

    House Rules

    Talking with Nick Hess, builder of simple homeless shelters

  • News

    December 14, 2004

    Empty Dreams

    Homeless 'canners' crushed by the system

  • News

    August 10, 2004

    The Ghosts of Penn Station

    As the Republican National Convention nears, street people have started to disappear

  • News

    December 9, 2003

    Wireless on the Streets

    A Homeless Blogger Finds an Online Community

  • News

    October 15, 2002

    A Perfect Storm

    It's Residents Out, Homeless Families in at Troubled Complex

  • News

    October 8, 2002

    Homeless Profit-Taking

    Brooklyn Developer Pulls Bait and Switch on Neighborhood

  • News

    August 20, 2002

    Helter Shelter

    Inside the City's Dreaded Dumping Ground for the Homeless

  • News

    July 30, 2002

    Ready, Willing & Under Fire

    Community Fights Doe Fund Shelter

  • NYC Life

    January 15, 2002

    Residency Requirement

    Homelessness Is Growing. Got Any Ideas for the New Mayor?

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    From the Margins Erased

    When the Towers Fell, Homeless People Disappeared. Their Friends Are Still Searching.

  • News

    May 2, 2000

    Shelter Skelter

    Homeless Women, Some Physically Disabled, Face Evacuation

  • Long Island Voice

    December 14, 1999

    Inside Apartment A42

    Homeless Women, Some Physically Disabled, Face Evacuation

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Wake-up Call for Rudy

    If Bedrooms Are for Sleeping, Why Won’t the Mayor Build More?

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Features

    Interviews by Dave Kihara, Sharon Lerner & Coco McPherson. Photographs by Hiroyuki Ito, Mayita Mendez, Michael Schmelling & Michael Sofronski

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Sanctioned Sadism

    Why the Right Needs the Homeless

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Inside Apartment A42

    A Homeless Family Confronts the City’s New Work-for-Shelter Rules 

  • News

    August 17, 1999

    Ask, Don't Tell

    Giuliani's suppressed report on homeless youth

  • News

    July 20, 1999

    No Relief

    Giuliani's New York: The View from Below

  • News

    June 1, 1999

    Craven Cave-In

    Rudy's Senate Ambitions Prompt Reversal on City's Upstate Homeless Camp

  • News

    March 2, 1999

    Mobile Homeless

    For many of New York City's dispossessed, the safest place is on wheels.

  • News

    January 5, 1999

    Payback Politics

    People in need pay the price for Rudy's revenge

  • News

    December 8, 1998

    The Disappeared

    People in need pay the price for Rudy's revenge

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