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Covering housing for @WNYC @Gothamist | dbrand@wnyc.org | Past: @CityLimitsNews, @QueensEagle & before that, a Licensed Social Worker
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Ever More Children Are Facing the Nightmare of Immigration Court on Their Own

Ever More Children Are Facing the Nightmare of Immigration Court on Their Own

The Nation — The abuse, gang threats, and rape Ana experienced would all likely have qualified her for SIJS or asylum before Jeff Sessions's recent decision to end asylum for victims of domestic and gang violence-and she may yet qualify; but without a lawyer, she has had to navigate the confusing process on her own.
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NYC's Immigration Court Erodes Accommodations for Children Without Attorneys

NYC's Immigration Court Erodes Accommodations for Children Without Attorneys

City Limits — After her father abandoned the family and her mother traveled to the U.S. to earn money for her children, Maria struggled. At home in Honduras, gang members tried to coerce her into becoming the "girlfriend" of one their members. So three years ago, Maria fled with her younger brother.
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Can Andrew Cuomo Really Deliver On His Housing Promises?

Can Andrew Cuomo Really Deliver On His Housing Promises?

CityLab — An advocacy group estimates that frozen funding has resulted in the lost production of 1,000 affordable housing units per month since April 2016. With their state mired in a historic homeless crisis and budget negotiations underway in Albany, low-income New Yorkers and housing advocates are urging Governor Andrew Cuomo to back up various press releases, State of the State addresses and previous budget proposals by finally funding long-term affordable housing development.
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City's Homeless Shelter Cops Need More Training, Advocates Say

City's Homeless Shelter Cops Need More Training, Advocates Say

City Limits — Amid applause, handmade signs and cellphone photography - and the raucous cheers of one proud mother - 26 freshly minted Department of Homeless Services Police Department peace officers received a final bit of guidance from instructors and NYPD brass after completing a four-week training academy at John Jay College in early-May.
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Shelter System and Other NYC Services Should Be Safe for Migrants, Experts Say

Shelter System and Other NYC Services Should Be Safe for Migrants, Experts Say

City Limits — Despite ramped up immigration enforcement and threatened federal funding cuts, New York City's protections of the immigration status information of non-U.S. citizens who use city agencies-including homeless shelters-seem sturdy enough to withstand federal pressure, immigration law experts say.
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Remembering The Homeless Who Died In 2016

Remembering The Homeless Who Died In 2016

Gothamist — fullscreen The windows and walls at Manhattan's Drisha Institute for Jewish Education were lined last night with large sheets of paper covered with 143 names, each the name of a homeless person who died in NYC this year.
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What the New 'Concealed Carry' Gun Law Could Mean for NYC

What the New 'Concealed Carry' Gun Law Could Mean for NYC

City Limits — Tucked inside a cement warehouse across from an elementary school in Ridgewood, the Seneca Sporting Range provides a place for New York City handgun-owners to unload. John DeLoca, a licensed gun dealer from Queens who says he has more than 1,000 firearms and nearly 100,000 rounds of ammunition, owns the range.
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Spared by Sandy, City's Waterfront Food Hub Prepares for Future Disasters

Spared by Sandy, City's Waterfront Food Hub Prepares for Future Disasters

City Limits — At 1 p.m. on a Monday afternoon, the New Fulton Fish Market in Hunts Point sits dim and dormant. If not for the slick floors and seafood scent, the facility might seem like a massive abandoned airplane hangar.
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Hundreds of Texas Towns Lack Basic Water and Sewer Systems

Hundreds of Texas Towns Lack Basic Water and Sewer Systems

globalcitizen.org — They're called colonias and they're home to about 1 million people.
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NYC's Cultural Plan Spurs Disabled Artists in Fight for Roles and Respect

NYC's Cultural Plan Spurs Disabled Artists in Fight for Roles and Respect

City Limits — Artists with disabilities say efforts at inclusion in the process behind and language of the de Blasio administration's CreateNYC plan were welcome. Now they want to see efforts to make sure both funding streams and art spaces become more accessible.
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7 Years After a Cholera Epidemic, Haitians Are Fighting for Accountability

7 Years After a Cholera Epidemic, Haitians Are Fighting for Accountability

globalcitizen.org — Juliana Belgarde was selling goods at a local market in Haiti when she first contracted cholera and had to be rushed to a hospital with no time to gather her wares. Though Belgarde and her six children survived the disease, her business - and thus, her livelihood - did not.
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Artists in NYC's Low-Income Neighborhoods Push City to Deliver on Arts Equity

Artists in NYC's Low-Income Neighborhoods Push City to Deliver on Arts Equity

City Limits — After attending a $60, 10-week writing workshop at El Fogon Center for the Arts in Longwood, Sydney Valerio, a teacher and lifelong Bronx resident, found her voice and began performing poetry. Next month, she will read portions of her latest one-woman show at an event entitled Poetry Town Hall.
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HIV Disproportionately Affects Transgender Women - But They're Fighting Back

HIV Disproportionately Affects Transgender Women - But They're Fighting Back

globalcitizen.org — Peru can be a demeaning and dangerous place for transgender women. Systematic discrimination, alienation, and physical attacks - often unpunished by local authorities - make it hard for transgender women to feel safe expressing their gender identity.
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