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ICPH Gives Inaugural Beyond Housing Award to NYC-based KidCare for “Letting Kids be Kids”

NEW YORK (January 29, 2014) – Last week, at its 2014 conference, Beyond Housing: A National Conversation on Child Poverty and Homelessness, the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH) presented the inaugural Beyond Housing Award to the New York City–based nonprofit KidCare in recognition of the organization’s tireless work with homeless children. The Beyond Housing Award honors people and organizations whose work exemplifies the idea that homelessness is much more than a housing issue. Recipients’ work goes “beyond housing” to provide services and support to homeless

New Book Provides Fresh Perspective on the Pervasive Poverty and Homelessness in NYC

Offers a history of public policies and private initiatives aimed at alleviating poverty, along with personal stories of those who witnessed and lived the experience of destitutionWith nearly 49,000 people living in city shelters, including almost 21,000 children—a modern-day record that may well be broken—there has never been more of a need to step back and understand how New Yorkers have confronted poverty and homelessness over time.  The Poor Among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City, published today by White Tiger Press, puts current policies in perspective

AGGRESSIVE REHOUSING POLICIES MAY LEAD TO REVOLVING SHELTER DOOR IN NEW YORK CITY

NEW YORK (June 24, 2010)—New York City rehousing programs for homeless families may be ineffective in reducing family homelessness in the long-term, according to “Boomerang Homeless Families: Aggressive Rehousing Policies in New York City,” an opinion brief released today by the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH).  The brief evaluates the Bloomberg Administration’s efforts to alleviate family homelessness and credits the first mayoral term as “a stable period” but calls into question the use of aggressive rehousing strategies that have become popular nationally, and

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