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  October 25, 2024 City Limits

  Bill Would Make It Easier for New Yorkers Leaving Jail to Qualify for Supportive Housing

  Manhattan City Councilmember Carlina Rivera introduced legislation Wednesday that would expand eligibility criteria for city-funded supportive housing to include people with justice system involvement in the last year—a change long sought by advocates, who say it would increase options for New Yorkers cycling between jail and shelter.

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• September 20, 2024 Columbia Law School

  It’s Not Impossible: How NYC Can Transform Jail Conditions

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  September 10, 2024 City & State New York

  The 2024 Power of Diversity: Latino 100

  New York’s top Hispanic leaders

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  September 04, 2024 Shelterforce

  Housing Advocates Design a Better Homecoming for People Leaving Incarceration

  Programs that offer reentry housing for formerly incarcerated people often replicate jail or prison settings. How can housing providers do better?

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  September 03, 2024 NY Daily News

  DA Looks to Head Off Trouble in Streets

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  August 13, 2024 Patch

  The Fortune Society Hosts The Sixth Annual Victor Rojas Block Party

  Victor Rojas, who the block party is named in memory of, was a beloved Fortune Society employee who died too soon.

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