PTH in The Nation magazine, and more: report release & press round-up

It's been a busy week -- Picture the Homeless members have been making the rounds, telling homeless people's stories & spreading the word about our key struggles...

Mayor Bloomberg's "Five-Year Plan" to reduce homelessness in NYC by two-thirds just expired -- and failed, bigtime.  We used the occasion to release a hot new report we've been working on for almost two years -- Time's Up: NYC Homeless People Demand Alternatives to Bloomberg's Failed Five-Year Plan.  [Contact us if you want copies!]  We held a press briefing on Tuesday, at which PTH leaders and Rental Subsidies Campaign organizers Sophia Bryant, Tyletha Samuels, and Nikita Price testified.  We we also joined by our friend Jamie McCallum who helped with the research and data -- and Jill Gerson and Frances Fox Piven, two great scholars who always stay in touch with poor people's concerns and struggles.  Thanks everybody!

Checkout...

video of the segment that ran on TV channel NY1

audio from WNYC radio by reporter Cindy Rodriguez

and the write-up in the Metro newspaper by reporter Amy Zimmer

We also did a press conference last week with a couple of the city's top elected officials, also saying enough-is-enough to Bloomberg failing the city's people constantly.  Checkout video of PTH member Sophia Bryant & this newspaper report & this blog write-up.

The reporter Alex Kane just published a detailed article in the Gotham Gazette on property warehousing, one of the key injustices that PTH is taking on in our pursuit of housing as a human right.

Finally, members of PTH's Civil Rights Committee worked with the national magazine The Nation for an installment of their Ten Things feature, called "Ten Things You Need to Know to Live on the Streets."  Don't miss it!

More very soon... We're only getting busier, and the NYC summer is heating up from week to week...