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Spiking Evictions Renew Calls to Reform NYC Marshals System
Last year, city marshals served more than 13,000 evictions, up from 5,000 in 2022, and just 268 in 2021, when the pandemic eviction moratorium was still in place. Over the past five years, six of the city’s 28 marshals were cited for errors during evictions.
Most cities and states use salaried city sheriffs, not private contractors, to carry out evictions. “Why do we do it this way?” asked Nakeeb Siddique, a supervising attorney with the Legal Aid Society
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For Migrants in Shelter, An Asylum Application Can Mean the Difference Between 30 or 60 More Days
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City’s Public Hospitals Mark Milestone in Surprising Role: Housing Patients
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Planting Certain Trees Can Make NYC’s Polluted Air Worse, New Study Finds
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Social Worker at New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth
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New Alternatives, a drop-in center for homeless LGBT + youth and young adults (under 30), seeks a full-time licensed master social worker. New Alternatives is a harm reduction, low barrier to entry agency.
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Policy Analyst at United Neighborhood Houses
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United Neighborhood Houses (UNH) is a policy and social change organization representing neighborhood settlement houses that reach 800,000 New Yorkers from all walks of life. UNH is seeking a Policy Analyst to focus on aging, mental health, and public housing issues and to be an integral part of our Policy and Advocacy department.
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Opinion: Heat Waves Show Why NYC Needs More Trees
“How do we keep people safe from extreme heat in an age of ever-increasing temperatures? One solution may be right in front of us: we need to plant more trees in the most heat-vulnerable areas and take better care of the ones we’ve got.”
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Concejo aprueba rezonificación de 7.000 nuevas viviendas en alrededores de futuras estaciones de tren del Este del Bronx
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