“Minorities” will no longer be a minority…
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NYTimes: Numbers of Children of Whites Falling Fast
– April 6, 2011Posted in: Misc.
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Podcast: aK Weekly #15 “Queens Get the Money”
– February 10, 2011Posted in: apolloKIDZ Weekly Podcast
This week the KIDZ and special guest Jada G. discuss bullying gone too far, the rise of multiracial Americans, Funk Flex laying hands on women, Lupe dissing the President and much more!
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Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above
– January 31, 2011Posted in: Misc.
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More and more young Americans identify themselves as multiracial, in this article the New York Times examines how that could change our view of race
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City homeless agency’s count is off #NYC #homeless
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
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The city’s homeless agency Thanksgiving, when it claimed 36,654 homeless people stayed overnight in shelters on the city’s dime.
Though the city declared the figure the “total shelter census,” a closer look reveals the city placed up to 1,200 more homeless people – all single adults – in various shelters that night.
Critics say the city underreports the numbers to minimize the homeless problem. City Councilwoman Anabel Palma said an accurate census is “vital” to determine the needs of “one of our city’s most vulnerable populations.”
Palma introduced a bill Wednesday to require the Department of Homeless Services include all homeless in its “total shelter census,” including shelters for displaced families run by another agency. A hearing on the issue is set for today.
The hidden numbers look like this:
The day after Thanksgiving, 471 homeless adults stayed in Safe Haven shelters – emergency shelters for the street homeless – while 379 more stayed in shelters for military vets.
Add to that scores of street homeless housed at YMCAs and hotels when Safe Haven beds weren’t available, a population the Coalition for the Homeless estimates at 200 to 400 a night.
That comes to as much as 1,250 – but it could be even higher if displaced people are figured in.
Also not included in the total census are the 221 families – about 650 people – the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) put in its shelters, which are separate from the DHS shelters.
These are families displaced from homes by fire and other unsafe conditions, some of whom stay in HPD shelters for months.
Homeless shelter resident Dane Kum, 62, said he served in Vietnam and has been staying at a veterans’ shelter in Long Island City for eight months.
“If you don’t count, you don’t exist in their eyes,” Kum said.
Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the Homeless said the city insists the homeless population is decreasing while, he says, the opposite is true.
He notes the most recent Mayor’s Management Report claims the “average number of single adults in shelter each day” dropped 3.1% from fiscal 2008 (6,737) to fiscal 2009 (6,526).
Add in Safe Haven and veteran shelters data, Markee says, and the average rises 3.3% in that same period.
DHS tracks the number of homeless in Safe Haven and military shelters but removed them from the nightly census in 2008. A spokeswoman wouldn’t say why.
