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  March 11, 2022 The Fortune Society

  Statement on The Seeding Opportunity

  The Fortune Society applauds Governor Hochul’s action to grant priority for cannabis retail licenses to people with marijuana convictions, and their family members.

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  March 02, 2022 City Limits

  Dilapidated Apartments, Lousy Landlords Plague NYC’s Sprawling ‘Scattered-Site’ Supportive Housing Network

  There are some 16,000 scattered-site supportive housing units across the city, rented and overseen by nonprofits contracted to provide services to tenants. But outdated contracts that trail actual market rents mean the organizations—and the state and city agencies that fund them—are propping up some of the city’s worst housing.

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  March 02, 2022 I Love The Upper West Side

  VIDEO: Fortune Society Execs Field Questions — Some Heated — About 258 West 97th Street

  At Community Board 7′s housing committee meeting on Monday evening, executives from The Fortune Society presented the non-profit’s plans to convert 258 West 97th Street into supportive housing for formerly incarcerated individuals as well as low-income residents. The project will be called Castle IV.

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  March 01, 2022

  FORTUNE SOCIETY STATEMENT AS LESS IS MORE GOES INTO EFFECT

  Rob DeLeon, Senior Vice President of The Fortune Society, issued the following statement as the Less is More Act goes into effect today, March 1.

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  March 01, 2022 West Side Rag

  The Community Responds to the Supportive Housing Program Coming to West 97th Street

  Residents of the upper west 90s expressed open-mindedness — laced with worry — about the new permanent supportive housing program being created at 258 W. 97th Street, which previously was an illegal hotel.

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