Uncertain Waits or Tickets Away: Immigrants Face New Reality as Shelter Stays Expire
Offering recently-arrived immigrants tickets to leave New York City has been standard procedure since families and single adults started arriving in large volumes in early 2022. But this dedicated location has sown confusion, emerging as one of the only options for people forced to leave their shelter placements as the cold sets in.
“They are trying to persuade people to get out of New York,” said Hugo Báez, 45, after visiting the site last week. “‘Do you have no other place? Well, I’ll give you tickets to Los Angeles. Or do you want Washington? Or do you want Texas?’ That’s why they send people here.”
NYC Promised More Apartments to Break a ‘Vicious Cycle.’ Where Are They?
A 2019 plan to expand the Justice Involved Supportive Housing program would satisfy a commitment in former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Points of Agreement to close the city’s notorious jail on Rikers Island. The existing operators aren’t biting.
1 in 9 NYC Public School Students Experienced Homelessness Last Year: Report
A record-high of 119,320 students during the 2022-2023 school year were living in the shelter system, “doubled up” in the housing of others or staying in hotels, motels or unsheltered, a new analysis found. The numbers mark the eighth consecutive year that the city’s population of homeless students surpassed 100,000.
City officials are reaching out to the private sector to help shift some of the delivery of commercial goods away from New York City’s busy streets and onto its waterways.
Opinion: Screened Admissions Policies Only Worsen Segregation in NYC Schools
“It’s easy to pretend to be colorblind when your head is buried in the sand. It’s easy to say you know what the community wants when your ‘community’ is meticulously curated.”
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We are an intergenerational, multi-racial, national-recognized, women of color led, grassroots organization that works at the intersection of racial justice and climate change by ensuring a just transition through community organizing, policy, popular education, leadership development and cultural/artistic expression in Brooklyn.
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Residentes de Nostrand Houses de NYCHA se preparan para una votación histórica sobre el futuro de sus viviendas
Tras un periodo de votación de 30 días que comienza el 8 de noviembre, Nostrand Houses podría ser la primera urbanización de la Autoridad de la Vivienda de la ciudad de Nueva York (NYCHA por sus siglas en inglés) en adherirse a la Fundación para la Preservación de la Vivienda Pública (Preservation Trust), una nueva entidad pública que puede emitir bonos para financiar reparaciones. Leer el artículo.
