Publications

Joining Forces to Help the Homeless

A response to the New York Times article "New York City Combining Agencies for Homeless and Welfare Services"

April 2016

Finding Solutions Beyond Homeless Shelters

A response to the New York Times article "Cuomo Orders That Homeless Be Taken to Shelter in Freezing Weather"

January 2016

City Officials Reaching Out to Homeless

A response to the New York Times article "Police Officers and Other New York City Agencies Visit Homeless Encampments"

September 2015

Adult answers on homelessness: We cannot arrest our way out of this quality-of-life problem

New York Daily News Guest Editorial

August 2015

Residents Demand Mayor, City Take Action On Synthetic Marijuana Use

Arnold Cohen interviewed for CBS2 newstory

August 2015

Housing for the Homeless

A Response to New York Times article "Nine Doctors Are Accused of Defrauding Medicaid Using Homeless People”

April 2015

Twenty-three people charged in Medicaid scam of New York homeless

The Guardian

April 2015

Nevermind shelter, gimme housing: With record homelessness, we need to start offering families permanent places to live

New York Dailys News Guest Editorial

March 2015

Can our policies spare some change?

New York Daily News Guest Editorial

December 2014

Replacing Workfare

A Response to New York Times article "De Blasio’s Plan to Eliminate Workfare Lifts Hopes for Job Seekers"

November 2014

De Blasio and Expectations

A Response to New York Times article "De Blasio Encounters Rising Friction Over Liberal Expectations"

August 2014

Promises Broken

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Failed Legacy on Homelessness

December 2013

Rise in Homelessness

A Response to New York Times article “Homeless Tally Taken in January Found 13% Rise in New York"

November 2013

A Vision to End Poverty

A Response to New York Times article “Fighting Poverty, and Critics"

September 2013

It Takes a Community

A Response to New York Times article “Poverty as a Childhood Disease"

May 2013

Homeless Veterans

A Response to New York Times editorial "Help for Homeless Veterans"

December 2011

New York State Budget

A Response to New York Times article “With Cuts, Cuomo Offers Shrunken Budget"

February 2011

What Was Not Said

A Response to Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City Address

January 2011

Combating Poverty in Tough Economic Times

A Response to New York Times editorial “The Recession’s Awful Impact"

September 2010

Opening Doors

A Response to the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness

July 2010

How the Tea Party Is Not Like the New Left

A Response to New York Times columnist David Brooks ''The Wal-Mart Hippies''

March 2010

Promises to Keep

The Reality Gap in the Mayor’s Plan on Homelessness and How He Can Close It

December 2009

Helping the Homeless

A Response to New York Times columnist Bob Herbert "Crises on Many Fronts"

October 2008

Reducing Homelessness

A Response to New York Times article “Mayor’s Effort to Reduce Homelessness Is Off Pace, Study Says"

August 2008

Seeking Solutions For People Adrift

A Response to New York Times article “Doors Close, Doors Open, and the Homeless Trudge On"

May 2008

Living Room Couches Are Not Homes

A Response to New York Times editorial “Grrridlock"

November 2007

Predictors of Homelessness among Older Adults in New York City

Disability, Economic, Human and Social Capital and Stressful Events

September 2007

Ways to Prevent Family Homelessness

A Response to New York Times editorial “The Homeless Maze"

March 2007