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  June 30, 2023 Crain's New York Business

  Op-ed: How creative funding can help kickstart complex capital projects

  Even as homelessness in New York City has doubled over the last decade— in 2022, more than 70,000 people were living in city-run shelters—we have struggled to deploy at scale one of the most effective solutions to the problem: permanent supportive housing.

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  June 30, 2023 The Indypendent

  Dismay Grows After City Budget Deal Axes Rikers Rehabilitation Programs

  The Fortune Society and five other outside organizations have conducted programs at Rikers since the early 1990s that help prepare incarcerated people to have a successful re-entry once they are released.

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  June 29, 2023 New York Amsterdam News

  Decision to cut community providers at Rikers Island is shortsighted and dangerous

  The city of New York is about to embark on a shortsighted, misguided and dangerous path––one that could be remedied if it reverses course and does not sever vital lifelines that put incarcerated New Yorkers on the path to positive change.

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  June 29, 2023 The Fortune Society

  THE FORTUNE SOCIETY STATEMENT ON THE HANDSHAKE AGREEMENT FOR NEW YORK CITY’S FY2024 BUDGET

  (June 29, 2023, New York, N.Y.)–The Fortune Society issued the following statement today after Mayor Adams and the New York City Council announced a handshake deal for the 2024 fiscal year.

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  June 29, 2023 The New York Times

  Libraries Spared but Rikers Suffers in $107 Billion N.Y.C. Budget Deal

  Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council agreed to a “bittersweet” budget that restores funding for key services while cutting others.

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