CLARIFY NEWS

We're so grateful to the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for hosting City Limits CLARIFY NEWS interns for six weeks this summer! Thank you! #Youthjournalism #Mediaequity #Partnership

Thank you Melissa DiPento for arranging the opportunity for CLARIFY NEWS interns to visit CBS News for the Morning Show with wonderful Gayle King! Special shout out to Rachel Graves for leading the studio tour, thank you!

CLARIFY NEWS reporting interns were out in the field last week covering a rally protesting Uber lockouts. This week, among other assignments, they'll be visiting the newsroom of The New York Times, and getting a lesson in photojournalism from talented City Limits photographer, Adi Talwar. #youthjournalism #diversity #mediaequity

Ready, Set, Go! Welcome to our summer student reporting interns! We look forward to a robust summer of public service journalism with you!

“Once again, the needs of the poor have been especially shut out of the state’s moral conscience, with our government refusing to include an increase to cash assistance grants in the budget.” Read this new City Limits op-ed: bit.ly/3V96VK9 by Rev. Dominique C. Atchison, Director of Membership and Strategic Partnerships, FPWA.

Exciting to see City Limits do a deep dive on Eli Dvorkin and I's research at Center for an Urban Future about the urgent need to decarbonize CUNY's campus, this generational moment for investment from all levels of government, and the immense talent at the university to get it done.

Where do people go when they leave NYC homeless shelters? For City Limits I investigate NYC's newly released data, the people it represents, and the system where few exit shelter and few find housing. What we don't know is as telling as what we do. It starts with Starlite: a success story. She got a housing voucher and found an apartment in Williamsburg, but not before bouncing between 8 in a year due to exits for medical emergencies and transfers. The data shows Starlite is one of a lucky few who exit to housing. On average, just 10 percent of people in DHS shelters exited each month, and just 2.5 percent exited to permanent housing. Over half of households in shelter exited "unknown" - more likely meaning they stay homeless than find housing, experts say. Read the story -> https://lnkd.in/eberj_U4

"As we approach the 50th anniversary of #supportivehousing, it is time we reflect on how far the movement has come and chart a course for its continued improvement well into the future. Albany must do the right thing by NYSSHP tenants and pass a stand-alone bill in the post-budget session to convert those 9,000 units to ESSHI. Now is the time to take the fundamental promise of supportive housing–that all residents deserve equal resources and care–and modernize and improve the model. By doing so, we can finally help New York end homelessness–and we cannot afford to delay," our Executive Director Pascale Leone in City Limits: https://lnkd.in/eA2vKABn #savesupportivehousing #endhomelessness

"When we head to the polls, we decide who should write our laws. When we participate as a juror, we collectively decide how those laws should apply to justice." Read this op-ed in City Limits from our Deputy CEO Rob DeLeon on the Jury of Our Peers Act. https://lnkd.in/e8sb94dM

In the 50 years since the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, strides have been made in financial empowerment for women. Yet, for survivors of domestic violence, economic abuse remains a barrier to independence. Our recent City Limits opinion piece dives deep into this issue. Check it out for valuable insights from Nathaniel Fields, blair doroshwalther, and Teal Inzunza, LMSW. Let's continue the conversation and work towards a more equitable future. ???? https://lnkd.in/eaY_Ev2S #EqualCreditOpportunity #FinancialEmpowerment #EndEconomicAbuse