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October 31, 2025 QNSWith SNAP cuts looming, LIC-based Fortune Society offers hope to underserved residents struggling with food insecurity
As SNAP cuts loom for 42 million people amid the ongoing government shutdown, Long Island City-based non-profit the Fortune Society has launched a new food distribution event in a bid to provide weekly food assistance to local residents struggling with food insecurity.
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October 29, 2025 Theatre News
New documentary champions theatre as a path to redemption inside and outside prison walls
A compelling new 40-minute documentary, Broadway, Bars, and Fortune, is urging a critical rethink of the justice system by spotlighting theatre and the arts as profound catalysts for change among formerly incarcerated individuals.
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October 02, 2025 New Amsterdam News
Council approves reentry-based supportive housing project despite objections from Adams and local rep
On Sept. 25, the New York City Council approved NYC Health + Hospitals’ Just Home proposal for a supportive housing complex on the Jacobi Medical Center campus in the Bronx’s Morris Park.
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September 25, 2025 Crain's New York Business
Council approves fraught Bronx hospital housing project for former detainees
The City Council greenlit a contentious hospital housing project in the Bronx on Thursday, bucking opposition from the local councilmember and Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
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September 24, 2025 News 12 Bronx
Morris Park residents push back as ‘Just Home’ project heads to City Council vote
The project is being led by The Fortune Society, a nonprofit that supports individuals reentering society after incarceration.
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September 23, 2025 City Limits
Housing For Formerly Incarcerated Could Test City Council’s ‘Member Deference’
After City Hall pulled its support for an East Bronx project to build supportive housing for seriously ill people leaving jail, City Council members are considering overruling one of their own.
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