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  December 05, 2022 City Limits

  NYC Needs Thousands of Apartments for the Formerly Incarcerated. 50 Face Furious Opposition

  “Just Home”—a NYC Health + Hospitals (HHC) plan to convert an empty staff residence on the Jacobi Hospital campus into supportive housing for a few dozen people with serious medical problems discharged from Rikers Island—is a pressure cooker for many of the most fraught issues in the city: homelessness, mental health, development, and the risk of crime, whether real or perceived.

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  December 05, 2022 The New York Times

  Letter: Stopping the Deaths in New York City Jails

  The writer is the president and C.E.O. of the Fortune Society.

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  December 02, 2022 AMNY

  Council bill to bar landlords from running criminal background checks on prospective tenants faces pushback ahead of first hearing

  A City Council bill that would mostly bar landlords from conducting criminal background checks on prospective tenants is facing intense backlash from a small group of council members, even as a majority of the body has signaled support for the measure.

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  November 29, 2022 Fox News

  NYC bill preventing landlords from performing criminal background checks backed by majority of council

  A majority of city council members have agreed to back the Fair Chance for Housing Act, which bans the screenings

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  November 29, 2022 The Crime Report

  Criminal Justice and Supportive Services Nonprofits To Consider On GivingTuesday

  Today is GivingTuesday, an annual campaign encouraging “radical generosity” to charitable causes around the world.

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