On Feb. 17, four Neighbors Together members went to The Museum of the City of New York on the upper east side with NT staff member Cassiah Sahl. We saw exhibits about the history of Activism in NYC, art by an artist named Chris "Daze" Ellis who began as a graffiti...
The New York Times reports: Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a notorious landlord of cramped flophouses in Brooklyn, taking what housing advocates described as unusually forceful action against an operator of so-called three-quarter homes. Read the full...
The New York Times reports: They are hardly typical hotel guests. On public assistance or federal disability, many struggle with addiction to drugs or alcohol. Some are mentally ill; others, simply homeless. The city moved them to the hotel to relieve overcrowding at...
The New York Times reports: New York City will dedicate $5 million of its budget for next year to inspect and fix illegal boarding homes, known as “three-quarter” houses, and to relocate tenants living in them, city officials said. Read the full story.
The New York Times reports: The office of the New York City comptroller plans to send letters on Tuesday to City Hall and various agencies demanding that they take steps to ensure that people in need of housing are not sent to illegal boarding homes, known as...
The New York Times reports: Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday he had formed an emergency task force to investigate so-called three-quarter houses in New York City for potentially exploiting addicts and homeless people by taking kickbacks on Medicaid fees for drug...
A Huffington Post investigation looks into the rise of "three-quarter" houses preying on addicts and the poor. Watch the video below.
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The New York Times reports: After a lifetime of abusing drugs, Horace Bush decided at age 62 that getting clean had become a matter of life or death. So Mr. Bush, a homeless man who still tucked in his T-shirts and ironed his jeans, moved to a flophouse in Brooklyn...