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NYC Council Calls for $6.2 Mill HASA Increase in City Budget
This came in late Thursday afternoon so we don’t have time to provide a full analysis of what it means. But we wanted to provide our readers with the information as soon as possible.
The NYC Council published its response to Mayor Bloomberg’s budget and is calling for an increase in HASA funds, and an investigation into the impact of the HASA broker’s fee reduction. They write:
However, HRA now proposes funding cuts which would fund HASA programs in Fiscal 2013 at almost Fiscal 2002 levels. These cuts would undoubtedly reduce the availability of services and undermine Local Law 49. The Council does not agree with HRA’s claims that the services provided by HASA case managers and contracted supportive …
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 3:31 pm
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Follow Housing Works on Pinterest! Pin your dream room to win 2 VIP Tickets to Design on a Dime!
The rumors are true, Pinterest, the third most popular social network in the United States, IS incredibly addictive. We’ve joined and are pinning fantastic finds like our new fave book, “Lobsters: Gangsters of the Sea”, Housing Works Street (and home) style, one-of-a-kind images from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe events, and dispatches from our fight to end AIDS and Homelessness.
To further celebrate our Pinterest interest, we’ve joined forces with 50 Design on a Dime interior superstars who’ve supplied us with pins of the incredible furniture, artwork and home accessories available for purchase at the benefit.
You can win 2 VIP tickets to the April 26th event by creating and sharing a pinboard using pins from our Pin a …
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:11 am
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New Info Sessions Added for Design on a Dime
Design on a Dime is only two weeks away and volunteer registration is coming to a close. We have added additional sessions for those of you who haven’t been able to make it, attending a session is mandatory for volunteering at the event. Please sign up to help make this the most volunteer filled Design on a Dime to date! Sign up instructions are located here: http://www.housingworks.org/events/design-on-a-dime/volunteer
If you aren’t interested in volunteering, consider purchasing a ticket, all proceeds fund our Jefferson Avenue Project, a brand new housing facility for ten of our clients and their families, located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. If we are able to meet our ticket sales goals this year, the project may be completed as soon as this Summer! If …
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:57 am
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Posted on April 11, 2012 at 9:37 am
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April Showers at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Vonnegut, Magic, Philip Levine, Guy Delisle and More
April showers of poetry and magic and more: Tonight we’re celebrating the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut. Next week join us for the second installment of the Better Book Club with Lev Grossman, Haley Tanner, magic, and comedy. April is, of course, National Poetry Month; stop by our Poetry Sale to stock up and impress your friends and more-than-friends, and on Monday 4/23 join Knopf, Tumblr, Poet Laureate Philip Levine, Tracy K. Smith for a Celebrate Poetry celebration. I tried to make this intro a poem but it turns out poetry is pretty hard.
Note: The Behind the Longreads with Kill Screen event previously scheduled for 4/17 has been postponed. The American Poet launch on Thursday 4/26 has moved to the powerHouse Arena …
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm
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Brooklyn and Bronx Rank Last in NYS Healthy Counties
Look at the map above. You’ll see it shows most of the people diagnosed with HIV in NYC last year were in South Bronx and Central Brooklyn. It should come as no surprise that a new study released last week measured the overall health of each county, found that of the 62 counties in New York State, Brooklyn ranks 54 and the Bronx ranks dead last at 62.
Metro NY interviewed the lead author of the study, Kate Konkle of the University of Wisconsin, who reported “many different factors affect health, from individual decisions to smoke to not having access to high-quality health care and healthy food.
‘Where we live matters to our health — and when you look at these …
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 1:50 pm
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ADAP Watch: AIDS Drug Wait List Hits 3,240
As of April 5th, the wait list to receive lifesaving AIDS medication through the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs had hit 3,240 people across 10 states.
The number of people waiting to receive medication through state-run AIDS drug programs has increased more than 5,000 percent since August 2009, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. The federal government has reacted with little urgency, however, allotting just $25 million in additional dollars to the program for FY 2012.
To help readers keep tabs on the growing ADAP crisis, we are now posting the ADAP Watch—the document that tracks increasing cuts to the program—each week, and including it in our …
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 10:57 am
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East New York Community Health Center Celebrates Expansion with Ribbon Cutting
Housing Works celebrated the newly renovated East New York Community Health Center with a hot-pink ribbon cutting and tour of the new facility.
About one-hundred Housing Works clients, staff, and community allies gathered outside the health center on Pitkin Avenue in East New York to celebrate the center’s re-opening, which will now serve all people regardless of HIV status, a first for Housing Works’ health service programs. The $500,000 renovation will more than double clients to reach 2,600 new users (about 10,552 medical visits annually), 80% who will be homeless, .
“In order to accomplish our mission of ending the dual crises of HIV and homelessness, we need to be able to offer health care to people before they become HIV-positive,” …
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:30 pm
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