Rising tide of homeless
By Kerry Burke, Austin Fenner and Tracy Connor, New York Daily News
The homeless epidemic is back with a vengeance. In the subway, commuters step around scruffy men making the concrete platform or a wooden bench their bed for the evening... [more]
Look to House for homeless aid
Editorials, New York Daily News
As documented in a Daily News special report yesterday, the sad ranks of New York's homeless have never been greater. Food pantries and shelters are seeing their highest numbers ever. More people are sleeping in the subways and on the streets... [more]
Urban Pathways in the News
"A policy shift by the Department of Housing and Urban Development moves federal funding toward simply providing housing
for the homeless and away from supportive services... As a result of the loss of federal support, for example, the New York City Coalition on the Continuum of Care decided it can no longer afford to renew the funding for 57 projects that provide employment and other supportive services."
— comments from Urban Pathways Executive Director Joan Ohlson, published as a Letters to the Editor in the November 3, 2003 edition of Crain's New York Business's. To read the Crain's article, "Supportive housing's growth spurt," as well as Joan Ohlson's complete reponse, click here.
"We asked the city if we could develop a shelter of last resort but they were not interested....in the winter people on the street for a number of days can die."
— Urban Pathways Executive Director Joan Ohlson, quoted in the New York Times on June 11, 2003, reacting to the Appellate Court
decision to grant the NYC Department of Homeless Services the right to evict rule violators from city shelters. To read the full quote and the complete article, click here.
