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