New York Times | June 13, 2002
By Nina Bernstein
In a 10-year plan to end homelessness in New York City, a statewide coalition of 150 nonprofit housing and social service agencies is calling for the addition of 16,000…
City Limits | April 2002
By Larry Schwartztol
The first step in the Fifth Avenue Committee’s reconstruction of 572 Pacific Street took place everywhere on the block except 572 Pacific Street. Before turning the vacant city-owned building into 10…
New York Times | December 19, 1993
By Dennis P. Culhane
Philadelphia – People are fed up with the homeless, particularly aggressive panhandlers. Even traditionally tolerant cities such as San Francisco and Seattle have passed laws effectively prohibiting people from being…
City Limits | December, 1993
The image of more than a thousand homeless men sleeping on cots in the bleak, cavernous space of the Fort Washington Armory became a national symbol of the cruel treatment of homeless people during the…
New York Newsday | November 12, 1991
By Ellen Baxter
Mayor Dinkins’ new proposal to scatter 35 specialized shelters throughout the city for $250 million is bad news for everyone. The furious opposition of elected officials and neighbors of the proposed…
Health/PAC Bulletin | Winter 1991
By Ellen Baxter
I am one of a group of people in Upper Manhattan who take over abandoned buildings and convert them into affordable housing for homeless and low-income men and women. To someone who has…
