"I applaud Ms. Susan Dominus and The New York Times for shedding some light on
the plight of Bronx families who will face eviction due to Governor Paterson’s
intent to cut funding for the homeless. “A Safety Net for Those Facing Eviction
Is Itself in Peril” should sound an alarm to all New Yorkers that removing
homeless prevention programs will have drastic impact on the lives of many, many
families."
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Homeless Prevention program in NYS
Sunday, January 18, 2009
A Safety Net for Those Facing Eviction Is Itself in Peril
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Arline Bencosme heard the whispery sound of a slip of paper sliding under her apartment door just as her 14-year-old son, J. J., was walking out of the room. Before he could come back, she scooped up the eviction notice, and ran out the door, leaving J. J. with his 18-year-old brother, Martin, so she could get to the welfare office before it closed. Ms. Bencosme, a home attendant who had fallen behind on her $980 monthly rent, could not make sense of everything the piece of paper said, but this much she understood: It was a five-day notice. If she did nothing, she worried, someone would come on the sixth day and padlock the door of her family’s tidy, if cramped, one-bedroom in the Bronx. They would be homeless.
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Policy Positions
HPP Testimony to Assemble Housing Committee (80 KB) 24-Aug-2011
UNH Testimony on the DOE and NYCHA Fee Policy for Human Services Providers (86 KB) 29-Oct-2010
Testimony on the DOE and NYCHA Fee Policy for Human Services Providers (101 KB) 01-Feb-2010
UNH Testimony on the DYCD Cornerstone Initiative Concept Paper (98 KB) 03-Jun-2009
UNH Article in New York Nonprofit Press on Settlement Houses and Public Housing (225 KB) 01-Mar-2009
UNH Testifies on NYCHA’s Payments to the City (15 KB) 18-Jun-2008
Testimony on NYCHA's 2009 Draft Hearing (108 KB) 13-Aug-2008
