Attorney Jeff Wild pursues helping the homeless fearlessly and for free. Wild is the executive director of the New Jersey Coalition to End Homelessness. He prevented Lakewood from bulldozing 120 men and women from their encampment two years ago and found them shelter. This was his first visit to this encampment in Passaic County....
read moreAdvocates, service providers, and impacted individuals are united in their frustration in response to Governor Christie’s May 2 conditional veto of legislation that would have modified the state’s Emergency Assistance (EA) program. “The Christie administration has made homelessness in New Jersey far worse – not better,” stated Jeff...
read moreTRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie partially vetoed a bill Monday that would have permanently restored housing assistance to thousands of chronically homeless and disabled people who lost aid when the program expired last year. Democratic lawmakers sponsored the bill in response to the state Department of Human Services’s...
read moreOn the heels of the annual count of individuals and families experiencing homelessness throughout the state, local shelters are struggling to find space for those who are in dire need. Results are still being tallied from the statewide NJ Counts 2016 point-in-time count, which was conducted in all 21 counties in January and...
read moreTrenton – Legislation authored by Senator Joe Vitale that would respond to a crisis situation that threatens some of the neediest residents of New Jersey with homelessness was approved by the Senate today. The bill, S-983, would create a permanent housing assistance program to help the disabled, chronically ill and long-term...
read moreBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM Posted: Mar. 10, 2016 8:00 am Updated: Mar. 10, 2016 3:04 pm ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — They’re house calls without the house. Far from the sterile confines of a doctor’s office or hospital, Brett Feldman looks for homeless people where they’re most likely to be found — in wooded encampments, under...
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