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STORY: Queens lawmaker blasts white supremacist group for ‘illegal
alien’ posters
SUMMARY: Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer blasted a white
supremacist group and ripped down the fl ier that is associated with
the group from the side of a traffi c light control box at the intersection
of 35th Street and Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside.
REACH: 14,203 people (as of 10/15/18)
End the helter shelter game in Queens
How desperate is the city’s Department of Homeless Services for space
to house the homeless? According to Queens Assemblywoman Catherine
Nolan, the agency’s looking at opening a shelter at a Maspeth public school.
Th e DHS, as of press time, has yet to acknowledge to us whether there’s any
validity to this report. If it’s true, it’s a stunning development. Th e school in
question — P.S. 9, which serves special needs students — is smack dab in the
heart of Community School District 24, which is long regarded as one of the
city’s most overcrowded school districts.
Th is scheme to rob Peter of school space to pay Paul in shelter space is truly
stunning — and demonstrates with incredible clarity the city’s dysfunctional
response to the never-ending homelessness crisis gripping the fi ve boroughs.
How many more of these bad ideas must we report on? When will the city
come to its senses and realize that large homeless shelters are not the solution
to this crisis?
No community in this city wants a large homeless shelter in its midst.
Queens has literally demonstrated this point over and over again — in
Maspeth, in Ozone Park, in Glendale, in Long Island City, in Jamaica, in
Bellerose.
Whether it’s a temporary emergency shelter in an underbooked hotel, or a
permanent shelter plan at a former factory or underused school site, the idea
of adding scores or hundreds of homeless people to one area is something
unacceptable to residents.
But more than that, it’s unacceptable to the homeless people the city’s trying
to help.
Homeless families want and need homes of their own. Many of them have
been simply priced out of market, or down on their luck, or a combination
of both. Th ey don’t want to be packed into crowded hotel rooms. Th ey need
housing vouchers so they can live independently where they want to live and
stay in the city they love.
For obvious reasons, it’s a terrible idea to crowd a large number of homeless
individuals with mental health issues into facilities. Th ey need supportive
housing similar to a model enacted in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they
can have their own place in a community and receive the care they require.
Th e de Blasio administration must do better than its current eff ort to, in
its own words, “turn the tide” on the homelessness crisis. Playing this helter
shelter game in Queens and beyond is a woefully inadequate at best — and
ignorantly lazy at worst — response to the human rights crisis in our midst.
Publisher & E ditor Victoria Schneps-Yunis
Co-Publisher Joshua A. Schneps
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E ditor-In-Chief Robert Pozarycki
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S taff Reporters Katrina Medoff, Ryan Kelly, Angela Matua
Contributing Reporters Cliff Kasden, Samantha Sohmer, Elizabeth Aloni
Production Manager Deborah Cusick
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Chief Financial Officer Maria Valencia
President & CEO Victoria Schneps-Yunis
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