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STAT OF THE DAY: 1 In 2,500 New Yorkers On the Street

The Bloomberg administration announced today that street homelessness in New York City dropped 12 percent since 2007 and 25 percent since 2005. The city has an estimated ratio of 1 unsheltered homeless...

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Activists Hound Hotelier Hank Freid

Activists plan to rally at noon on Saturday outside controversial hotelier Hank Freid's Broadway Studios on the Upper West Side to "denounce the continued operation of illegal hotels" by "scamlords"...

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The Local: Homeless Feel Economy's Downturn

Mike Fleming, a 29-year-old Ohio native who has been living on the streets since 2003, had his 15 minutes of fame a few months ago when he discovered the building schematics for the Freedom Tower while...

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Homelessness Is On the Rise

The growth of tent settlements in California and elsewhere is one of the saddest developments in this season of sadness.  As President Barack Obama recently observed, “It is not acceptable for children...

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De Blasio No Fan of Mayor’s New Homelessness Approach — UPDATED

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio thinks the city's latest solution to homelessness might only make things worse.  The New York Times today painted a pretty grim picture of the city’s struggles with rent...

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A Tale of Two Homeless Shelters: How the UWS and the Bronx Are Still Worlds...

It's not as bad as it sounds, these Upper West Siders swear. It's nothing personal, nothing against the homeless. It's just, the area is so flooded with supportive housing, adding another shelter will...

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Want to Live in Soho for Less Than a Hundred Bucks a Month? Try Manhattan...

Looks nicer than your place. The Post had discovered an ingenious way to live in the heart of Manhattan for a little as $92 a month—just move into Manhattan Mini Storage in West Soho. On the building’s...

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The Return of Hooverville: The Deepening Crisis of Family Homelessness

Under Bloomberg, more enter the shelters but fewer get out. (Jori Bolton) By the time Anne Pierre and her sons arrived at 199 Amboy Street, it was after midnight. The heat of the unusually warm April...

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Fashion Blogger PJ Gach Wins Brief Reprieve From Eviction, Homelessness

Ms. Gach. It isn't much of a relief, but fashion and beauty blogger PJ Gach, who recently took to the internet to try and raise the $7,739 in back rent she needs to pay her landlord to fend off...

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Graphic Designers Finally Solve Homelessness Using Twee Fonts

If there’s one thing the homeless could use, it’s some snazzy typography. Food, water, shelter and healthcare would be nice, too–but a couple of graphic designers believe bright colors and cool fonts...

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Entrepreneur Will Save the World by Deigning to Teach One ‘Unjustly Homeless’...

Is there anything the great, holy gift of Proficiency in Javascript can’t solve? World hunger, human trafficking, terrorism: all plagues that could be easily solved if people just bothered to pick up a...

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