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  September 23, 2025 Gothamist

  NYC Council to vote on Bronx housing plan for ex-Rikers detainees in break from custom

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  August 21, 2025 Amsterdam News

  Fortune Society’s Seventh Annual Victor Rojas Block Party honors community ‘inspiration’

  The Fortune Society will host its seventh annual Victor Rojas Block Party on August 22, bringing families, alumni, and local partners together at its Castle Gardens residence in Harlem in honor of a community hero and friend.

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  August 20, 2025 The Daily News

  NYC’s nonprofit housing for the justice-involved

  The Fortune Society, Housing Works, and HousingPlus deliver quality living accommodations, care, and — when needed — substance abuse and mental health services. But the work doesn’t stop there — and neither does its impact.

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  August 15, 2025 City Limits

  Funding Boost Could Fulfill City’s Pledge to Expand Housing for New Yorkers Who Cycle Between Shelter and Jail

  The city’s latest budget includes funds to grow the number of apartments in the Justice-Involved Supportive Housing program (JISH) from 120 to 500. That expansion was among the commitments the city made in its 2019 agreement to close Rikers Island.

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  August 11, 2025 Queens Daily Eagle

  City announces new Rikers reentry pilot program

  The city is piloting a program that gives Rikers Island detainees municipal IDs in the hopes that it eases their transition back into city life.

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  July 26, 2025 New York YIMBY

  Castle III’s Façade Progresses at 107 East 123rd Street in East Harlem, Manhattan

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