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March 08, 2023 City LimitsOpinion: Addressing the Plight of New Yorkers Aging Behind Bars
“We witness firsthand the challenges that our older participants face when they come to us, usually because they no longer have family to turn to after such long periods of incarceration: physical health issues that might be less severe if treated properly sooner; unaddressed trauma, greatly exacerbated by incarceration; lack of financial resources; and homelessness.”
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December 05, 2022 The New York TimesLetter: 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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September 28, 2022 City Limits
Opinion: ‘Just Home’ Project Planned for The Bronx Deserves Community Support
“Fear aside, will our city recognize health care as a human right? If these sick people can’t be placed in a hospital campus, then where else can they go?”
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September 07, 2022 Gotham GazetteThe City Council’s First Test to be The City of Yes We All Need
The housing market in New York City is more unaffordable than ever. How we got here may be complicated, including decades of zoning barriers to building affordable housing and insufficient overall production, but the way out is simple: every neighborhood must do its part to add to our affordable housing supply, without exception or delay.
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May 12, 2022 City LimitsOpinion: Planned Borough-Based Jails are a Chance for a ‘Radically Different’ System
“Concerns about the creation of ‘mega jails’ have hounded the plans to close the jails on Rikers Island since before the historic vote in 2019. It has served as a useful boogeyman for opponents of the Rikers closure plan, especially in Manhattan. It’s also a fabrication.”
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May 02, 2022 City Limits
Opinion: Supportive Housing Can Help Break the Cycle Between Homelessness and Incarceration
“Deeply affordable housing with supportive services for this population has a proven track record of success and hits all the Adams administration’s goals of efficiency, smart government, addressing problems at their root, and getting things done.”
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