#OnThisDate in 1968, the federal court for the Southern District of New York decided Kelly v. Wyman, 294 F. Supp. 893. The court held that only an evidentiary hearing before termination of welfare benefits (federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and state Home Relief) would satisfy the constitutional due-process requirements, and rejected the argument of the welfare officials that the combination of the existing post-termination "

#OnThisDate in 1987, the New York Appellate Division, 1st Department, forbade the release of Joyce Brown, also known as Billie Boggs, from the psychiatric unit of Bellevue Hospital, pending the Cit…

#OnThisDate in 1987, Judge Robert D. Lippmann of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County, issued a decision in Matter of Boggs, 136 Misc. 2d 1082 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., N.Y. Co., 1987), The questio…

Gusty westerly winds bring a very cold airmass to region late tonight into Tue. Min wind chills early Tue from mid teens to mid 20s. This will be what the temperature will feel like with the forecast sustained winds which will be ~10 to 15 mph early Tue on avg. #NYwx #NJwx #CTwx https://t.co/g2gbC8Bh4u

Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

#OnThisDate in 2012, the first annual Remembrance week homeless memorial service was held at the St. Martin-in-the-Fields church (@smitf_london) in London, UK, tied to the annual Remembrance Day ce…

More than 2 million New Yorkers cast a ballot in a high-stakes election that smashed recent turnout levels.

#OnThisDate in 2017, @InvisiblePeople posted this video interview from the homeless encampment along the Santa Ana Riverbed Trail in Orange County, CA. The encampment was later emptied, under settl…

Zohran Mamdani’s dithering performance in the final mayoral debate pointed up the ongoing problem with his campaign. It’s a house of cards built on sound bites and laced with antisemiti…

This new guide helps journalists navigate the ethical and human challenges of reporting on homelessness

#OnThisDate in 1948, Yvonne McCain was born. In 1983, she filed the landmark lawsuit named after her, McCain v. Koch, which established the right to shelter for homeless families in NYC, and was ev…

#OnThisDate in 2006, the famous Bowery music club CBGB was closed. Muzzy Rosenblatt, CEO of the Bowery Residents Committee (BRC), a homeless shelter operator, which owned the building, sued the club to demand high back rent, which the club couldn't afford to pay.

#OnThisDate in 2019, in the very early morning hours, Randy Rodriguez Santos, 24, hit 5 homeless men, sleeping in the streets of Chinatown on or near the Bowery and Chatham Square, on the head with a steel pipe, killing 4 and put one in critical condition. The oldest victim was Chuen Kwok, sometimes spelled Kok, 83 or 84, born in 1935.

#OnThisDate in 2003, the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, refused to hear an appeal on client "sanctions" in Callahan v. Carey (punishment of clients by denial of shelter for 30 days or as long as the violation continues), leaving the Appellate Division's decision undisturbed. "It is no fun being a Cassandra," Legal Aid attorney Steven Banks…

#OnThisDate in 1947, Joyce Patricia Brown, also known as Billie Boggs, was born in Elizabeth, NJ. She was the first homeless person involuntarily transported by Project HELP to psychiatric ER at Bellevue Hospital under an expanded legal standard requiring finding of danger to self or others "within the foreseeable future", not necessarily "imminent", and involuntarily committed. She contested, contacted the…