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December 18, 2023 The Legal Aid SocietyAdvocates 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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December 14, 2023 City & State New York
Exclusive: New Rikers commission unveils list of members
The former New York City probation commissioner and a former deputy mayor will join many original members to get the closure plan back on track.
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November 29, 2023 News 12 Brooklyn
Digital Divide: New initiative allows formerly incarcerated who missed out on tech boom to catch up
For Laron Rodgers, reintegrating into society after a long incarceration has been difficult. Despite using a computer to get his master’s degree behind bars, he compares his decades long stay in prison to a time warp in which the digital world passed him by.
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