How an Eight-Year-Old’s Question Led to a Children’s Book on Homelessness
Kursid Kids is a beautiful fantasy about the elimination of poverty.
The Indypendent
Homelessness
Op-Ed: More Control, Less Rent
Tenants deserve far more control of their housing. In the face of attacks on the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act, our demands go beyond the protection of rent stabilization.
Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize in Response to Migrant Influx
Ariadna Phillips of South Bronx Mutual/Mutual Aid Collective tells the NY City Council about the city’s failure to meet the basic needs of migrants.
Homeless Union Launched by NYC Shelter Residents
Its first campaign is to improve the quality of the food they are served
This Month in Eric Adams: The Mayor Extends the Blue Wall of Silence to the Whole of City Government
Adams reverses a de Blasio-era rule requiring top mayoral officials to disclose meetings with lobbyists while his lawyers tutor administration employees in the new omerta.
This Month in Eric Adams: A Fishy Food Story, More Policing and a Taste for Homophobes
In February, NYC’s new mayor flaunted his Trumpish tendencies while presiding over a breathtaking expansion of the police state in New York City.
Homeless New Yorkers Respond to Mayor’s Plan to Boot Them from Subway System
“There’s got to be a better way to handle the situation,” says one homeless man who ended up on the streets following an eviction. “It’s inhumane to not let people sleep in the subway system.”
Twenty Years Later: How the New World Trade Center Became a Monument to Greed and Power
Twenty years after September 11, the World Trade Center redevelopment story encapsulates the political, economic, and cultural forces that…
Michael Hollingsworth Wants Housing for Everyone
This Crown Heights tenant organizer vows to bring movement politics into City Council — and hopes to show apathetic voters that government can be made to work for the people.
How the MTA Uses the Pandemic to Freeze Out the Homeless
Reduced overnight service, benches removed, loitering laws limiting time spent in subway stations, and the shelters are overflowing. Where to go?