#OnThisDate in 1987, the NY Appellate Division, 1st Department, forbade the release of #JoyceBrown, also known as #BillieBoggs, from the psychiatric unit of Bellevue Hospital, pending the City's appeal of Judge R.D. Lippmann's decision in her case. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/o...

#OnThisDate in 1987, Judge Robert D. Lippmann of the Supreme Court of NY, New York County, issued a decision in the landmark #PsychiatrizationOfHomelessness case Matter of Boggs, 136 Misc. 2d 1082, and ordered #JoyceBrown aka #BillieBoggs released. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/11/12/o...

#CodeBlue in NYC tonight, and likely tomorrow. Windchill 25F in Central Park 21F at JFK. x.com/NWSNewYorkNY...

Is this legal? www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g...

#GrahamPruss has an important mini-article: "What is 'service resistance'?" www.facebook.com/share/p/17aN...

#OnThisDate in 2012, the first annual Remembrance week #HomelessMemorialService was held at the #StMartinInTheFields church (@smitf_london) in London, tied 2 the annual #RemembranceDay celebrated on Nov. 11th in memory of those who died in World War I. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2023/11/08/o...

34-year-old African-born Muslim Indian-American #ZohranMamdani won the NYC mayoral election. Congratulations, and may he surround himself with professional and competent staffers and experts who will help him run the City on a good course. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/m...

#OnThisDate in 2017, @invisiblepeople.tv posted this interview from the encampment along the #SantaAnaRiverbedTrail in #OrangeCountyCA. The encampment was later emptied, under settlement requiring the County to shelter the residents in motel rooms. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2023/11/03/o...

#OnThisDate in 1987, the first court hearing was held for #JoyceBrown aka #BillieBoggs: 4 psychiatrists testified for the city, 3 for the #NYCLU. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/11/05/o...

The @nydailynews.com Editorial Board endorses #AndrewCuomo for NYC mayor. I don't. ... www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/26/t...

#AlexVitale is sharing a detailed Opinion why #ZohranMamdani’s proposed Department of Community Safety would be a win for both homeless and housed New Yorkers. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

🧵Career highlight I hope will have many positive ripples: @poynterinstitute.bsky.social just published a guide to homelesness reporting that I've spent months creating with an impressive group of journalists across the country with years of experience on the beat.

Urging everyone to watch and *share* this powerful video from @invisiblepeople.tv. Criminalization of homelessness does not work.

#OnThisDate in 1948, #YvonneMcCain was born, the lead plaintiff in #McCainVKoch, a class action that established the #RightToShelter for homeless families in NYC. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2024/10/25/o...

#OnThisDate in 2006, the famous music club #CBGB was closed. #MuzzyRosenblatt, CEO of the #BoweryResidentsCommittee (#BRC), a homeless shelter operator, which owned the building, demanded high rent, which the club couldn't afford to pay.

#OnThisDate in 2010, the first #WorldHomelessDay was observed. Celebrate it by acknowledging the World Homeless Day, pointing out existing good work, releasing new funds, declaring targets, and publicizing, raising and distributing donations near you. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/o...

#OnThisDate in 1984, #SDNY decided #PittsVBlack on #FourteenthAmendment #EqualProtection grounds, permanently enjoining NYC #BoardOfElections from refusing to allow homeless individuals to #RegisterToVote if they did not inhabit traditional residences. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/o...

#OnThisDate at night in 2019, #RandyRodriguezSantos, 24, hit 5 homeless men, sleeping in the streets of Chinatown on or near the Bowery and Chatham Square, on the head with a steel pipe, killing #ChuenKwok, 83, and 3 others, and put one in critical condition.

The general election is less than a month away. #RegisterToVote, folks, if you haven't already. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2024/01/24/h...

#OnThisDate in 2023, #OrangeCountyCA Superior Court began accepting #CAREcourt cases. But no #RightToShelter, not a word about any plans to #HouseTheHomeless. Pure #PsychiatrizationOfHomelessness. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/o...

#OnThisDate in 1979, attorney #RobertHayes filed the landmark case #CallahanVCarey, which set the ground for the #RightToShelter in NYC for homeless men. You're poor, show up, ask for shelter, they can't turn you away for "insufficient resources". homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/10/02/o...

#OnThisDate in 2003, the #NYCourtOfAppeals refused to hear an appeal on client "sanctions" in #CallahanVCarey (punishment of clients by denial of shelter for 30 days or longer), leaving the #NYAppDiv's decision undisturbed.

#OnThisDate in 1947, #JoyceBrown, also known as #Billie Boggs, was born. She was the first homeless person involuntarily transported by #ProjectHELP to psychiatric ER at #BellevueHospital under an expanded "foreseeable future" legal standard. She sued and eventually won her freedom.

Josh on Twitter: "... the DSM largely lacks what in the world of science is known as "reliability" —the ability to produce consistent, replicable results. In other words, it lacks scientific validity." - Bessel Van der Kolk, 'The Body Keeps the Score' x.com/TheExplorerP...

#OnThisDate in 2018, #MartinVBoise was decided. "As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the gov't cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter." homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/09/04/o...

#JimmyAvila, 44, shot his building super (who died) and neighbor, was sent to #RikersIsland, died (how?) the next day. RIP both. He had been sent there by a nonprofit, #BronxAddictionServices, sued the landlord and management company complaining of bedbugs. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/31/b...

"New N.Y.C. #FoodStandards Could Spell Doom for #ChickenNuggets", #AnnaKodé reports. "The standards, which go into effect in July 2026, apply to public schools and hospitals, and to agencies that serve older adults and homeless people, among others." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/n...

#OnThisDate in 1981, the #CallahanVCarey consent decree was signed by the parties & "so-ordered" by the judge. This established a de-facto #RightToShelter and minimum shelter quality standards in NYC for homeless men, extended later 2 women & families. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/08/26/o...

#OnThisDate in 1990, the New York/New York agreement was signed. The NYS OMH and NYC HRA & Dept. of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services agreed to provide housing & mental-health services 2 5,225 homeless mentally ill individuals. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/o...

A short report on NYC #MayorAdams' efforts at #PsychiatrizationOfHomelessness, after he declared and the state legislated "failure to meet basic needs" as a permissible ground for #InvoluntaryCommitment. Folks everywhere, beware. And watch your shoes when you sleep. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#OnThisDate in 2020, Mary Duffy, aka [email protected] or simply Dallas, died of cancer. She was a great lady. Those who knew her are that much richer. Let's visit her account Tw:@homelessdallas1, like we'd visit a grave, and remember her. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/08/12/o...

#OnThisDate in 2013, in #FloydVNYC, J. #ShiraSheindlin found NYC's stop-and-frisk policy unconstitutional. #MayorAdams (then state senator, later Brooklyn BP) testified. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2023/08/13/o...

While people are waiting for public housing for 8 years or more, #MayorAdams' #NYCHA increased the number of apartments that stand empty from 4,800 in 2023 to 5,000 this year. abc7ny.com/amp/post/7-s...

New article by Michael R. Duke and others incl. @mkushel.bsky.social: “‘Everybody out There in the Real World Is One Paycheck Away from Being Homeless’: Job Loss and Housing Precarity among People Experiencing Homelessness.” J. of Soc. Distress & Homelessness. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.....

NYPD #CommissionerTisch is expanding the Q-Team (already in Manhattan and the Bronx) into Brooklyn. 'This isn't broken windows,' she says. Old wine in new bottles? gothamist.com/news/this-is...

@clewisreports.bsky.social reports that #NYSDOH and #NYSOMH signed a class-action settlement agreeing to provide timely mental-health services for children on Medicaid, rather than wait and hospitalize them. Not published yet, pending #EDNY court approval. gothamist.com/news/ny-agre...

#OnThisDate in 2008, NYC #IndependentBudgetOffice released the report "Has the Rise in Homelessness Prevention Spending Decreased the Shelter Population?" homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2023/08/07/o...

#OnThisDate and the next day in 1988, a big riot broke loose in #TompkinsSquarePark. Oppressed people do rise up, but this time it was the NYPD who started a riot, beating up hippies, Hare Krishna followers, homeless people, partygoers, and reporters. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/o...

#NYCDHS is opening the first homeless shelter for transgender people in the US, in Long Island City, with 150 beds, @gothamist.com #KarenYi reports. gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

There have been 67 cases reported in the #LegionnairesDisease outbreak in #CentralHarlem, including 3 deaths. Most people don't get sick, but among those who do, the mortality rate is 10-15%. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/05/l...

There's a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem, one person dead. It grows in rooftop water tanks and spreads through showers. There was a large outbreak in Melrose, the Bronx, in 2015. Read on. www.otdowntown.com/news/legionn...

Through his words and leadership, writer James Baldwin exposed and explored issues of race, sexual orientation and class in America. A self-professed "witness to the truth," he forced the country to confront its own painful truths. He was born #OTD in 1924. #TheMarchContinues

Also #OnThisDate in 1993, in McCain v. Dinkins aka #McCainVKoch, the #NYAppDiv upheld fines imposed in November on 4 NYC government officials, vacated the order for them to spend nights in #EAUs, and remanded to the Sup.Ct. for sanctions. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2023/07/29/o...

#OnThisDate in 1993, in #LoperVNYPD, the #2dCircuit upheld #SDNY's judgment declaring statute prohibiting "loitering for the purpose of begging" unconstitutional on #FirstAmendment ground. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/07/29/o...

#OnThisDate in 1932, Gen. MacArthur, under Pres. Hoover, led troops with tanks, fixed bayonets, and tear gas in evicting thousands of WWI veterans from encampments and abandoned buildings in Washington, DC. Two vets were shot dead by a DC policeman. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/o...

It's important to explain how shelter operators' actions or failures to act have harmed you or are likely to harm you. This post lists & explains the #HarmsOfHomelessShelters. Want to couple #RightToShelter w/ #ObligationToAccept? Explain how to prevent.

#PresReagan was quoted as saying that some people are homeless "by choice". Conventional wisdom is that he meant that they prefer to be homeless rather than housed. Not so. ... www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

#OnThisDate in 1990, the #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct (#ADA) was signed into law. homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/o...

#OnThisDate in 1984, the #FranklinAvenueShelter opened with 400 beds for single men, by agreement with Borough President Scott Simon and the state, in return for closing the #KingsbridgeArmoryShelter.