Number of Supporters for 35,000 Units Keeps Growing
Nov.25.2015
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The Network, as part of a diverse coalition including Republican and Democrat elected officials, faith leaders and more than 300 other organizations, has been advocating for a meaningful commitment to supportive housing statewide that meets the need. Support for the campaign has been extraordinary. On Monday, Senators Young and Amedore appeared on Capitol Tonight discussing their support of a 35,000 unit commitment, having been two of the 26 Republican and Democrat Senators who signed a letter to the Governor with the same message. Read more here.
26 NYS Senators Urge Governor to Support 35,000 Supportive Housing Units Statewide
Nov.25.2015
Twenty-six New York State Senators signed a bipartisan letter asking Governor Cuomo to commit to the development of 35,000 new units of supportive housing statewide.
The letter, submitted by Senator Martin Golden, is the latest action to move the supportive housing plan forward. In recent months, events in Buffalo, Rochester and Long Island have featured State Senators, State Assembly members and local elected officials and advocates from around the state calling for the Governor’s backing of a plan to create 35,000 units across the state.
Continue Reading …Long Island Legislators & Local Community Leaders Call for 35,000 Supportive Housing Units Statewide
Nov.24.2015
State Senator Phil Boyle, Assembly Member Phil Ramos, Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern and State Senator Tom Croci
State Senators Tom Croci and Phil Boyle, Assembly Member Phil Ramos, Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern, Suffolk County Veteran Services Director Thomas Ronayne and community leaders used the 27th Annual Keys for the Homeless Conference to call for the creation of 35,000 supportive housing units statewide. Held two days after Veterans Day, the event focused on how supportive housing can help to end veteran homelessness.
Continue Reading …Rochester Legislators and Community Leaders Call for 35,000 Units of Supportive Housing
Nov.06.2015
From left: Rochester City Councilman Michael Patterson, Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, Assembly Member Harry Bronson, State Senator Rich Funke.
Virtually every area dignitary -- Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, State Senator Rich Funke, Assembly Member Harry Bronson, Rochester City Councilman Michael Patterson, and Deputy Commissioner of Neighborhood and Business Development for the City of Rochester, Kate Washington -- joined economic development organizations, local businesses and community leaders for a news conference October 22 calling for the creation of 35,000 supportive housing units statewide.
CSH Releases Report on Need for Supportive Housing in New York State
Nov.04.2015
In the first-ever data-driven attempt at assessing the total need for supportive housing in New York State, CSH released Real Supportive Housing Need in New York State October 26th. The product of more than ten months of data collection, interviews with more than 100 stakeholders and vetting by all major state and local government stakeholders, the assessment estimates that 36,164 homeless households (30,311 adult, 5,853 families) were in need of supportive housing in 2013. The assessment did not attempt to capture the percentage of people in either the corrections or domestic violence systems that are in need of supportive housing.
New study supports widespread call for 35,000 units of supportive housing statewide
Nov.04.2015
Legislators from around New York State support a robust NY/NY4.
There have been bipartisan calls for 35,000 new units of supportive housing across the state in recent weeks, most notably in Rochester and in Buffalo, as well as in New York City.
Buffalo Legislators and Community Leaders Call for 35,000 Supportive Housing Units
Sep.24.2015
Photos on left and right: Project Homeless Connect reaches out to create a bridge of support services for homeless citizens. Photo in center: on stage at the event (from left): Mark Boyd, representative for Assembly Member Crystal Peoples-Stokes; Gale Burstein, Erie County Health Commissioner; Mark Schroeder, Buffalo City Comptroller; Senator Tim Kennedy (D-Buffalo); Network member Joyelle Tedeschi, Director of Programs, Matt Urban Hope Center (speaking); Senator Marc Panepinto (D-Buffalo); Assembly Member Sean Ryan (D-Buffalo).
Project Homeless Connect, the annual event that provides services to more than 600 Buffalo area homeless individuals was also the backdrop this year, for state legislators and community leaders’ calling on Governor Cuomo to fund 35,000 supportive housing units across the state to help address homelessness among the neediest New Yorkers.
Continue Reading …Gov. Cuomo Accepts Recommendations Aimed at Easing Re-entry for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
Sep.24.2015
Governor Cuomo this week accepted all 12 recommendations aimed at easing re-entry and reintegration for formerly incarcerated individuals made by the Council on Re-Entry and Reintegration. One of the recommendations calls for the inclusion of re-entering individuals coping with mental illness as a target population for supportive housing. The Council was convened last year and included Network members JoAnne Page, President and CEO, The Fortune Society and George McDonald, Founder and President of the Doe Fund.
Governor Announces End of AIDS Taskforce
May.08.2015
Last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo released a blueprint to end the AIDS epidemic in New York State by 2020: 2015 Blueprint – Ending AIDS. The taskforce’s blueprint offers 30 recommendations on how to support the Governor’s plan to reduce new HIV infections and improve the health of all HIV infected New Yorkers by: 1) identifying people with HIV and linking them to health care, 2) getting HIV patients on anti-HIV therapy, and 3) providing access to pre-exposure prevention measures for high risk individuals. The goal of the plan is to reduce new HIV infections from 3,000 to 750 and reduce by 50% the rate at which persons diagnosed with HIV progress to AIDS by 2020.
Highridge Gardens Opens in Poughkeepsie
May.08.2015
Rehabilitation Support Services' new residence in Poughkeepsie, Highridge Gardens
On April 17th, Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS), Inc. held a ribbon-cutting in Poughkeepsie for Highridge Gardens, a 50 unit supportive housing project. This newly constructed building represents a first: it is the first congregate supportive housing project built by RSS, a Network member with a long history of providing mental health housing and the very first OMH congregate supportive housing in the entire Capital Region, between Saratoga and Westchester Counties.
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