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New York State Budget Update: Legislature One House Budgets Released
Mar.17.2021
The NYS Senate and Assembly released their one house budget bills over the weekend. Here is an update on where some of our advocacy priorities landed in both one houses.
Notes from the Field: Vaccinations
Feb.25.2021
The Network recently caught up with three providers – West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing, Concern for Independent Living, and The Fortune Society – to gauge how vaccination roll out was going and what creative solutions they found to address barriers like vaccine hesitancy, mobility and transportation issues, and vaccine access.
Remembering George McDonald
Feb.24.2021
The Network wishes to honor the life and work of supportive housing pioneer and The Doe Fund founder George McDonald. Below are some thoughts from his colleagues at The Doe Fund. This piece was originally published on The Doe Fund website here.
George T. McDonald, Founder of The Doe Fund and its President for 35 years, passed away on January 26th after battling cancer. He was 76 years old.
February Community Corner
Feb.24.2021
Historical racist land use planning in the United States has contributed to persistent residential segregation and ensuring inequity in the communities in which Black and Brown people live. The racist roots of zoning practices began in the late 1800s in which the earliest goals of land use regulation were to explicitly accomplish racial segregation via zoning ordinances. Racist land use policies remain today in the form of the exclusion and restriction of certain uses and density regulations. The podcast from Code Switch titled “Location! Location! Location!” provides an overview of how residential segregation is still shaping how we live.
The Network Testifies at Joint Legislative Budget Hearing
Feb.18.2021
The Network’s Executive Director, Laura Mascuch, testified in support of the Governor’s proposal to fund Year 6 of the Governor’s 15 year/20,000 unit commitment at the New York State Senate and Assembly Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on February 2nd.