The Homeless and COVID-19:

Weekly roundup hosts Jerry and Michele talk to NYC Relief President Juan Galloway who has been on the streets of New York City and Newark NJ serving the homeless population with all the new challenges the virus brings.

An article about the importance of cell phones for people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how City Relief stepped up to provide them.

Abner Paulino, community leader, talks about the various initiatives that this non-profit organization has been developing for more than 30 years to support homeless people in the city and encourage them to work and rehabilitate. Paulino explains how the social programs they carry out are working in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

Juan Galloway, President and CEO of New York City Relief, a nonprofit serving the homeless, discusses the strain the pandemic has put on an already fragile social service system.

The Bowery Mission and other New York City soup kitchens are facing a crisis because of the coronavirus. Melissa Russo reports.

Food banks, pantries, and hunger relief providers across the country say they’re seeing an unprecedented surge in demand for meals…as the coronavirus pandemic pushes more people into poverty.

“But what do you do if you can’t stay home? What do you do if you’re homeless?” Josiah Haken is helping New York City’s most vulnerable residents during the pandemic.

AM Greatness features City Relief’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jason Jones Show interview with Nicholas Di iorio from City Relief.

NICHOLAS Di iorio, Community Engagement Officer at City Relief on their work serving those who struggle with homelessness.

An article that discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and how to best respond to the needs of our unhoused neighbors while minimizing the risk for them, staff, and volunteers.

“Stop complaining. It can always be worse.”

"You’re not as bad off as the next guy.”

“Suck it up, you’re being too sensitive.”

These phrases take up space in our ear and lead us down a rugged, desolate road. Searching for respite from our solitude, we grasp onto them as truths, when they are simply a temporary band-aid.

The weather changed. One day it was 50 degrees and the next it was 26. I’m no mathematician, but I believe that’s a 24 degree drop. 24 degrees in 24 hours. In my family, it meant jumping from sweatshirts to heavy jackets.

Hope for New York helps provide volunteers for various locations and, recently New York City Relief showcased some HFNY volunteers at their South Bronx location. Hear from Beth Tepes, one of the volunteers, and why she was impacted from volunteering.

One of the questions I get a lot when I do workshops or trainings around the topic of homelessness is, "How do I explain homelessness to my kids?" Usually this question comes from parents who live and work in areas where homelessness is self-evident. Occasionally it comes from parents who are planning a family trip into the city and they want to get out ahead of the inevitable questions that will come up as they walk from point A to point B.

One of City Relief’s Outreach Leaders talks to Spectrum News about the experience of living on the street and what you can do to help those who are struggling.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but here are five things I’ve learned over the last seven years about how to best love my neighbors experiencing homelessness.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard Christians justify doing nothing for the poor and the homeless by quoting the words of Jesus found in Mark 14:7: “The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.”

Now, besides the obvious irony of using the words of the same man who told the parables of the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son, the same man who highlighted the significance of the widow’s generosity, and the same man who constantly warned of the dangers of greed, in order to excuse not lifting a finger to help the poor, there is also another fundamental problem

VP of Outreach Operations on BBC Breakfast talking about the January 2018 bomb cyclone and it's impact on NYC's homeless population.

The most common question that I get about homelessness is simply, “what should I do?”