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"A spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services said the city is required to keep a portion of its total 27,000 supportive housing units indefinitely empty for emergency purposes." What? Homelessness is an "emergency." Just offer people apartments. nydailynews.com/news/politics/…

"The city typically also interviews 3 candidates at a time for any given single supportive housing unit vacancy..." The "three interviewees per unit" rule is just a mechanism to allow for creaming and discrimination by supportive housing providers/landlords. It needn't exist.

The City gives full - 100% - say to providers/LLs on which eligible applicants they house. Even when denials are blatant violations of disability laws, the City lets it go, no questions asked. Unless that is dealt with, H-1st will continue to be unnecessarily out of reach.

🆘️🆘️🆘️ Neighbors in Chinatown are being threatened with their *THIRD* sweep this week, scheduled for ‼️TODAY (7/7) at 11 AM‼️ Please come to Canal & Chrystie to support. Neighbors & press kept police from abusing our neighbors on Tuesday. Your presence is vital!!!

Another wave of violence against homeless people is terrifying. There are things that Mayor Eric Adams & NYC DSS Commissioner Molly Park could do: 1) Immediately stop sweeps: Sweeps make people more vulnerable to violence. 2) Immediately open single rooms and allow for direct placement into them.

“It’s like a slum" NYC has 16K scattered-site supportive housing units for the formerly homeless But there's almost no oversight as tenants are placed in some of NYC's worst housing Here's what's happening in 1 big nonprofit's portfolio City Limits citylimits.org/2022/07/13/its…

A litany of human rights organizations such as Open Hearts Initiative, Housing Works, VOCAL-NY, and more joined those who have experienced homelessness on July 17 at Gracie Mansion to denounce what has been a trying year for the city's homeless. amny.com/news/still-goi…

"The hotels are hosting homeless families just seven months after city officials celebrated moving children out of all commercial facilities, which lack kitchens." citylimits.org/2022/07/18/pre…

📣 📣📣CALL FOR SUPPORT! 📣📣📣 Our friends in Chinatown have received another sweep notice. They've been through this SIX TIMES in July alone. Supporters will be at 🔆 Forsyth & Canal starting at 8 am 🔆 and throughout the morning Bring open hearts and helping hands 🖤🤲🖤

Our statement about today's announcement by Mayor Eric Adams and Homeless Services:

Our statement on today's announcement of the 'Homeless Assistance Fund'

Re: the intent of this corporate-led effort: "The effort was spearheaded by the Partnership for New York City because one of its recent surveys showed concerns over public safety and homelessness have stymied the return to the office." commercialobserver.com/2022/07/busine…

Policing is how the "on the ground work" of criminalizing homelessness and survival is done. Housing is how the homelessness crisis ends.

No city/government/community has ever ended homelessness this way, police-first. Decades of research show this is the wrong approach.

“I couldn’t believe that they took away a homeless girl for just being there. And they left all her stuff, that’s all I would think about. That’s all she has in the world" amny.com/news/arrest-ea…

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Our statement re: today's New York City Council General Welfare Committee hearing: "Oversight - Long-standing NYC Shelter Intake Issues and the Recent Increase in Asylum Seekers."

"Yet Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, the executive director of Catholic Charities... said that he has spoken to newly arrived migrants who are being turned away from city shelters that are at capacity. “Some are sleeping in the parks...That’s the reality.” ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

Yes, as Picture the Homeless, VOCAL-NY, us, and many others have repeatedly pointed out - access to public bathrooms is largely non-existent in NYC. People need to go to the bathroom - give them options.