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Global Solidarity 
Housing Organizing in NYC During the Pandemic and Beyond
COVID-19 is now pushing hundreds of thousands of the city’s residents further into housing insecurity, and in search for answers to systemic housing problems that were already lurking just below the surface.
Tags: cancel rent, homelessness, housing, housing organizing, nyc, rent strike
Global Solidarity 
Some NYC Homeless Practice Social Distancing in Hotels, with Help from Donors
The city Department of Homeless Services is in the process of making as many as 2,500 hotel rooms available as isolation spaces for sick or elderly residents of the city homeless shelters. Yet most of the shelter system’s 17,000 single adults, and all of 3,500 known residents of the city’s streets and subways have no space to isolate themselves.
Tags: homelessness, Housing rights, New York, USA