Thanks to NYC Housing Preservation and Development Team for presenting options for seniors in need of affordable and accessible housing and to the BRC’s Kim Fong and staff for hosting and to the interpreters who insured everything said was understood.
Special Thanks to Ahmed Tigani Acting Commissioner of NYC’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development
and Ilana Maier and William Fowler: Communications
Thank you also to LiveOn NY
This was a vital outreach event for our communities’ elders.
– Applications for affordable senior housing in NYC are over 520,000 and growing.
-We had almost 93,000 homeless New Yorkers in December. 4
– The number of single adults ages 65+ in the city’s main shelter system more than doubled from 2014 to 2022.5
– Poverty rates for older adults: Manhattan 16.3%. AARP
-65% of older New Yorkers surveyed live on less than $15,000 a year. 32% don’t receive social security. One in five older women live below the poverty level”. LiveOnNY
Ahmen Tigani (Acting Commissioner of NYC’s Deptof HPD) and K Webster (Coalition President of Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition) in the beautiful M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden (all-volunteer maintained a GreenThumb Garden).
Photos: Ilana Maier
