New York City has an array of public and private homeless outreach shelters and programs designed to assist those with the most dire need of support. The city's Department of Homeless Services oversees the operation and funding of all shelters. Many shelters accept only cash donations, but some...
New York City's subway system has become a haven for homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic. Patrick Warren, the Metropolitan Transit Authority's chief safety officer, said the homeless issue has become a "pandemic in itself." According to the local Department of Social Servi...
NYC homeless boom puts shelters in lap of wealthyMEGHAN BARR
Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1−800−799−7233 for information about local women's shelters that could benefit from your donation. Contact any churches or religious organizations in the area and inquire about charities or shelters looking for clothing or blanket donations....
Another man waiting for food and a blanket said shelters were for people who were “slow.” At the stop outside Harlem Hospital, a man named Michael said shelters involved “too much paperwork,” and that he preferred to sleep on the train -- something that would become impossible later in...
How many rooms do hotels, worth a billion dollars, in NYC have, and how much revenue do they tend to make? What is the distribution of income? What is the cumulative income of the median-income earner in this group? What is the difference between income inequality and wealth inequal...
The City of St. Louis’s emergency shelter was also open ready for hundreds of people in need. You can drop of donations of blankets, coats, hats, or cash forSt. Louis Homeless Winter Outreachat Mokabe’s. The cash will pay for everything from food to bus passes for the homeless. ...
This is not a happy story: the NYC chapter of Habitat for Humanity took over $20 million in stimulus money to renovate abandoned buildings in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood -- but wound up helping push residents out of apartments there, and even into homelessness, in order to acqu...
while minimizing re-traumatization and creating psychological safety. Carefully chosen case studies beautifully illustrate how these principles can be put into practice in a variety of settings–from street outreach to shelters to special education classrooms–and are attentive to the impact of racism ...
Rats and rot: NYC report rips family homeless sheltersBy JENNIFER PELTZ