Media Coverage

Below, is a selection of media coverage featuring Community Voices Heard. This page is new as of May 2012, so please be sure to check back as we continue to expand the coverage available here.

Residents Give Their Take On Yonkers In State Of The People Address

Yonkers Daily Voice | By: Matt Bultman | March 19, 2013

On the eve of Mayor Mike Spano’s State of the City address, a group of concerned residents presented their perspective on the condition of Yonkers.

Boston Consulting Group's Secretive $10 Million Report on NYCHA Not So Shady After All

By Jason Lewis | Sept. 28, 2012

The Boston Consulting Group's $10 million evaluation of the New York City Housing Authority's central office and infrastructure has all the makings of some good old chunky scandal-soup:

1) The chairman of an already cash-strapped NYCHA signs off on a $10 million contract with a private consulting firm that he used to work for.

Housing officials offer dialogue to homeless advocates regarding shelter

By: Mid-Hudson News Network | September 28, 2012

Several dozen protesters opposing homeless shelter fees were greeted by their target in Poughkeepsie Thursday afternoon, at a rally held outside Hudson River Housing offices on Mill Street.

Nuns in caravan rip Staten Island's Grimm for support of GOP proposals

By Tom Wrobleski | September 24, 2012

The sisters of "Nuns on the Bus," a Catholic social justice group, dubbed themselves "Nuns on the Ferry" Monday, traveling to Staten Island to protest GOP Rep. Michael Grimm's support of Republican budget proposals they say will harm the poor.

Grimm (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) later said the nuns should instead focus on things like the decision to give city high school students the morning-after pill.

Homeless shelter adds time limits and fees

Homeless advocates blast Dutchess County shelter's new fee and 120-night limit

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