The amount of homeless people in New York City has reached the highest level since the Great Depression. Some of the main reasons that people become homeless is because of the lack of affordable housing, mental illness, gentrification, substance abuse,… Continue Reading →
Gentrification is when wealthier, usually white, people arrive in an existing urban neighborhood and cause changes in the community. These changes are usually very complicated and contradictory. The changes include an increase in median income of the neighborhood, increases in… Continue Reading →
The Coalition for the Homeless helps over 3,500 men, women and children each day with food, crisis services, advocacy, housing, job training and kids programs. A little more about the Coalition for the Homeless… Here, you can find reasons as… Continue Reading →
Habitat for Humanity is about affordable housing – it’s a hand up not a hand out, and because they do mortgage subsidization for 50-80 AMI they aren’t able to house homeless people. A little more about Habitat for Humanity… Want… Continue Reading →
My name is Marilyn Guaman, but my friends call me Smurphy. I want to majorin Psychology and Neuroscience, but I’d like to be an oncologist. My interest in medicine stems back to my mom. As a young child, she’d make… Continue Reading →
My name is Donna Episcopio, and I am currently a Freshman at the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College. I am pursuing a major in Biology and a double minor in Chemistry and the Business and Liberal Arts Honors Track…. Continue Reading →
My name is Kristen Cheung and I am a Freshman at the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College. I am a Neuroscience major. I am currently a research assistant at the Stress in Pregnancy Study at Queens College and a… Continue Reading →
My name is Grace Tan and I am currently a Freshman at Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, majoring in Secondary Education and Mathematics. I am also currently part of the TIME2000 Program at Queens College. I am currently a… Continue Reading →
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