Low-Income Housing With High Hopes
Morris Manor, a new Brooklyn housing complex, combines luxury building-style amenities with support services for its formerly homeless tenants.
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Hungry Get Haircuts, TLC at Pantry
The hungry won't find just food at the Yorkville Common Pantry. The Manhattan pantry also offers free haircuts and shaves, courtesy of volunteers from a Mennonite church in Manitoba, Canada.
Homeless Make Their Votes Count
Leon Vega, Jr., 42 and homeless, voted for the first time on Election Day. …
Ricardo Brown
Age: 41 Neighborhood: Rosedale, Queens Occupation: Certified Public Account…
via CUNY Graduate Center Advocate
Underground Poetry in Motion
Their eyes met for little more than a second. "Cool" J.C. Rocwell acted ins…
via Bay News/Courier Life Publications
Sanitation Samaritan Helps Hungry
Unlike most great stories, this one begins in the trash. Tom Neve’s discovery of an escalating homeless population along his Brooklyn sanitation route was an image that he just couldn’t throw away. So he started a volunteer-run food pantry.