Joelle Ballam-Schwan
@joballam
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09-09-2014 14:03:54
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"#Supportivehousing is a key solution to addressing NYC's homelessness crisis, but available affordable land for developing is scarce. In order to meet our target for NYC 15/15 we need to start thinking creatively right now." Network's Joelle Ballam-Schwan, New York City Council Housing/Blgs hearing.
New York City’s mental health crisis response system is broken. Please vote Daniel's Law (S4814/A2210) FAVORABLY out of Committee to save NYers now! Aileen Gunther Senator Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick Nathalia Fernandez Anthony H. Palumbo Gustavo Rivera NYS Senator Julia Salazar Lea Webb
The oldest state supportive housing program, NYSSHP, funds 20K units, but is only 1/5th the contract rates of the current ESSHI program. This drastic underfunding is forcing dedicated staff to leave the workforce. We must save NYSSHP! New York State Senate NY Assembly Majority The Supportive Housing Network of NY
Make sure to mark your calendars for a #PeersNotPolice Rally next Tuesday at 9AM before the New York City Council preliminary budget hearing on the corner of Broadway & Murray. eventbrite.com/e/peers-not-po…
"I am deeply concerned about how B-HEARD is operating & police responses. What we saw w/ #JordanNeely shows the necessity of having mental health crisis response w/o police intervention." TY Shahana Hanif at today's New York City Council Mental Health Comittee hearing. #PeersNotPolice
Congratulations Julia Ehrman! (Thank you for tweet to steal Jon Orcutt) #juliafanclub ~ <3
I just wrote a Action Network letter: We demand a 6.5% cost-of-living adjustment for human services workers. #JustPay #JustPay | Human Services Council of New York Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/we-dem…
#KawaskiTrawick should be celebrating his 37th birthday today. He was a Black gay man & a dancer who was cooking at home when NYPD Brendan Thompson & Herbert Davis killed him in 112 seconds. Please RT to tell Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani & new Jessica S. Tisch to stop the delays & fire Thompson & Davis.
.Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani how can NYC address the homelessness crisis if you keep starving the agencies and NFPS working to end it? #NOPEGS #NOCUTS #savesupportivehousing The Supportive Housing Network of NY
Cuts to already-strained agencies & NFPS that are working to end homelessness w/ 90K homeless in NYC makes no sense. Starving these agencies & NFPS is the exact wrong approach. New York City Council Lincoln Restler #savesupportivehousing, stand strong in opposing cuts. The Supportive Housing Network of NY
The Homeless Protection Act would make homelessness a protected class in NY and lead to better data on the full scope of anti-homeless incidents. Read more and join Care For the Homeless and Urban Pathways in advocating to #PasstheHPA this session! gothamist.com/news/a-year-af…
"To operate effectively, B-HEARD must remain a top priority for this administration. If not, traumatic — & deadly — interactions between the police & those struggling with their mental health will continue." Rholan Pierre & Sheina Banatte in New York Daily News nydailynews.com/2024/09/23/nyc…