The latest from NYC contracts ... Citizens' Committee for Children ... Project Renewal
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The New York City Administration for Children’s Services is intending to renew more than $41 million in contracts with Rising Ground. The two contracts would run through Sept. 10, 2022, and would fund limited-secure placement services, according to the City Record. The agency has also awarded a $39,600 contract to The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to provide “crisis de-briefing services.”
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development is looking to renew contracts to provide Neighborhood Development Area Educational Support Programs citywide. Nine organizations “will provide services to one of the high need NDA communities in the area of either Educational support for High School Youth, Adult Literacy, Healthy Families, Senior Services, Immigrant Services, Housing Services or Opportunity Youth to supported work experience,” according to the City Record. The contract renewals will run through June 2021. See the full list here.
A four-year, $10.5 million contract between the New York City Department of Homeless Services and Volunteers of America-Greater New York will fund a homeless shelter at 1675 Broadway in Brooklyn. Nazareth Housing received a $4.4 million contract to do the same through June 2023 at a shelter located at 2252 Crotona Ave. in the Bronx.
St. Nicks Alliance and Project Renewal are teaming up with Hudson Cos. to redevelop the former Greenpoint Hospital in Brooklyn. The project will develop two new buildings with 400 units of low-income housing. They’ll also convert two buildings to more than 100 affordable homes for seniors and the other building will house two homeless shelters, according to The Real Deal.
Project Renewal is proud to be part of the team to transform the historic Greenpoint Hospital site into affordable housing and a new building for an existing shelter. @NYCHousing also selected @stnicksalliance and @HudsonCompanies for the development team. https://t.co/JV99b59N6X
— Project Renewal (@ProjectRenewal) September 18, 2018
A new report by Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York examines inequality for children and families on Staten Island’s North Shore. Here are five takeaways from the report, taken verbatim from a Sept. 17 post on the nonprofit’s blog:
- Economic conditions on the North Shore are marked by wide levels of disparity. No community district with a poverty rate as high as the North Shore’s (21 percent) has such a high share of residents who live in higher income households (nearly 40 percent).
- The North Shore has the eighth lowest labor force participation ratio out of the city’s 59 community districts and the 10th lowest employment rate.
- The North Shore has a higher share of households experiencing severe rent burden compared to the city overall, even though rents in the community district have not increased on the North Shore at the same rate as they have citywide.
- Rates of enrollment in early educational programs for 3- and 4-year-olds on the North Shore are lower than for the city as a whole, which may be partly attributable to a lack of subsidized child care.
- Despite having higher rates of youth employment than 16- to 24-year-olds citywide, North Shore youth are more likely to be disconnected (meaning greater numbers are both out of school and out of work) than youth citywide.
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