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  December 21, 2023 The Fortune Society

  The Fortune Society Statement about City Council’s Passage of the Fair Chance for Housing Act

  JoAnne Page, President/CEO of The Fortune Society, issued the following statement about the passage of the Fair Chance for Housing Act.

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  December 20, 2023 Fair Chance for Housing campaign

  City Council Takes Historic Action to Tackle Housing Discrimination by Passing the Fair Chance for Housing Act

  The Act Will Allow 750,000 New Yorkers with Past Convictions to Access Stable Housing, Reducing Recidivism and Increasing Safety

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  December 18, 2023 The Legal Aid Society

  Advocates Call on NYC Council to Pass the Fair Chance for Housing Act, Ahead of Stated Meeting

  The Fair Chance for Housing Coalition – including The Legal Aid Society, Community Voices Heard, The Fortune Society, Osborne Association, Freedom Agenda of the Urban Justice Center, Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice Center, Brooklyn Defenders Services, Women’s Community Justice Association, and Visionary V Ministries – call on the New York City Council to pass the Fair Chance for Housing Act (Intro 632-A) on December 20th, during the Council’s Stated Meeting.

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  December 14, 2023 The Fortune Society

  The Fortune Society Statement about the Just Home Initiative on the NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Campus in The Bronx

  JoAnne Page, President/CEO of The Fortune Society, issued the following statement about an innovative new housing model to be constructed in an existing building on the NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi campus in The Bronx.

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  December 14, 2023 City Limits

  Plan to House Formerly-Incarcerated Inches Forward in the East Bronx

  The “Just Home” proposal to house seriously ill people leaving jail cleared one of its final procedural hurdles at a heated public hearing, where locals repeatedly testified that they feared for their safety.

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