“Patrick Markee spent two decades walking through New York City’s tunnels, armories and intake centers. His book asks: what if homelessness isn’t a personal failing, but the result of policy choices?”
Category: homelessness-and-housing
Homelessness Is About Affordability
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Bronx Library and Affordable Housing
“New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and New York Public Library (NYPL) officials are making good on their promise to add affordable housing atop public libraries sited on city-owned land.”
SC Housing Seeks Homebuilders for Innovative Affordable Housing Program
Cost of building affordable single-family homes would be subsidized, deadline to apply is Sept. 30.
How Social Work Interns are Changing Lives at these Public Libraries
“While many homeless library patrons seek assistance, Montano said, others like 76-year-old Elizabeth Fresquez see the library as their last hope to keep their housing and find other services.”
Educators Fear Their Homeless Students Could Become a Target for Trump Cuts
“At some point in the school year, roughly 1.4 million students are homeless. Federal law provides extra help to make sure they get an education. That law is overseen by the U.S. Education Department, which the Trump administration wants to close.”
Office of Community Planning and Development, within the Department of Housing and Urban Development to lose 84% of its Staff
The Community Planning and Development office at HUD disburses more than $3.6 billion in federal funding for rental assistance, mental health and substance use treatment, and outreach to try and get those living outside into shelter or housing.
New Photography Exhibit at Central Library Highlights Mementos of Those Living on the Streets
“It is not the homeless person that needs to be humanized,” Lommasson said. “It is us. One thing I’ve learned from this project is that any of us, if one or two circumstances changed in our lives, we could be unhoused. There’s a whole list of factors why people are homeless.”
Housing Obligations
For the first time in decades, every municipality in New Jersey now has a specific housing obligation. The last housing obligations set by the state, done by what was the Council on Affordable Housing at the time, ended in 1999.
Housing
Everyone is talking about the need for affordable housing.