New Documentary Looks at ‘Housing First’ Homeless Shelter Model Across American Cities (original) (raw)
New Documentary Looks at ‘Housing First’ Homeless Shelter Model Across American Cities
Eleanor J. Bader Aug 19
Housing First offers a systemic response to homelessness that gives people a place to stay with no strings attached.
Op-Ed: New York Tenants Need An Enforceable Statewide Right To Counsel
Daniel Osagie Inneh & Monica Ordoñes Apr 15
Two tenants explain why it’s imperative that we actually have the Right to Counsel.
Life After Landlords: Tenants in Foreclosed Crown Heights Building Seek to Take Over the Property
Amba Guerguerian Jan 25
The residents at 567 St. John’s Place are calling on the City to fund the building’s much-needed upkeep and then allow them to run it.
Ridgewood Rises Up for Palestine
Amba Guerguerian Jan 7
Ridgewood Tenants Union led a 1,000-person march that highlights the displacement experienced in both rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods and by Palestinians at the hands of Israeli settlers.
From NYC to Palestine: Grassroots Movements Speak Out on Israel-Gaza War
Rebecca Chowdhury Dec 18, 2023
Grassroots orgs that fight police brutality, landlord evictions, school budget cuts and more are embracing the Palestinian struggle as their own.
Building Solidarity Among Astoria Tenants
Claudia Gohn Dec 15, 2023
A budding tenants union in Astoria hopes to organize across buildings.
Morningside Heights Rallies Outside Columbia for Affordable Housing
Amelia Merrill Nov 22, 2023
Neighborhood group urges the university to earmark 30% of units at a new tower at 600 W. 125th Street for low- and middle-income neighborhood residents.
Book Review: Love, Real Estate and a Small Town on Edge
Eleanor J. Bader Nov 2, 2023
In Celine Keating’s third novel, Montauk is the setting for a multi-sided battle over the future of a pristine parcel of land.
Once a Homeless Youth, Now a Leader Who’s Changing City Policies
Sunny Nagpaul Oct 9, 2023
Lyndon Hernandez navigated NYC’s byzantine shelter system for almost a decade before finding stable housing and a career helping other homeless youths.
NYCHA Residents in Chelsea Resist Demolition Plan That Could Displace Them
Elsie Carson-Holt Aug 7, 2023
The 4,500 tenants at NYCHA’s Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses face the recent announcement that their buildings will be demolished and rebuilt by The Related Companies and Essence Realty.