New York City Plan 20 percent of hotels in NYC -- 139 hotels -- are currently housing the homeless.
BUILDING CARE redifining homelessness
Columbia Univerisity GSAPP 2020Fall Advanced Studio - Networks of Care Instructor: Laura Kurgan Site: New York City, NY Individual Work The COVID infection rate and cases in California and New York are rapidly rising. For vulnerable population like homeless people, the pandemic exacerbated their existing conditions and reasons. We appreciate the idea of Ticktin that “Care is an understanding of the condition of life on earth as interdependent and relational, an approach that favors attunement over control.” These three cities are having high homeless rate for years. Some cities have introduced some unusual strategies to address homelessness during the Pandemic. For example, San Francisco are housing homeless people in empty hotels. Some think this is a strategy to keep them inside. New York City has also housing homeless people in empty hotel rooms as of May 2020.
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