SCHENECTADY — A local program helping homeless mothers transition to permanent housing turned 25 this year. Administrators of Schenectady Community Action…
Advocate: Landlords devastated by pandemic eviction moratorium | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY Chris Morris, president of the Schenectady Landlords Influencing Change, said the state’s extension of an eviction moratorium through August is devastating to landlords in the city.
During SLIC’s virtual meeting Wednesday, Morris said the organization had campaign signs printed that call for entities to “support small landlords.”
She asked the assembled landlords to put the signs on their lawns but not on their rental properties so that no one can suggest that they are shaming tenants who haven’t paid them for months on end.
Vaccination rates vary greatly within Schenectady County; database shows large differences across ZIP codes | The Daily Gazette
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May 2, 2021
Myasia Page receives her Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from Holly Vacca, RN, Nurse Manager of the Schenectady City School District, at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Schenectady High School on April 25. Right: COVID vaccination rates by ZIP code.
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But not all parts of the county are vaccinating at an equal rate.
Nationwide, the generalization has been that rural white Republicans and urban minority communities have been among the slowest to vaccinate, and the same pattern has developed in Schenectady County.
A ZIP code-based database provided by county Public Health Services indicates that only 36% of residents age 15 and older in the Hamilton Hill and Vale neighborhoods have received at least one dose of vaccine, compared with 73% in Niskayuna.
HIGH NOTES: Help for the homeless, food for spring break, vaccination success | The Daily Gazette
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In Schenectady, city police Sgt. Nick Mannix and Lt. Ryan Macherone, seeing a need to help the homeless rather than punish them, worked with community agencies over the winter to provide supplies for those living in a homeless encampment off of Lomasney Avenue until they could find housing. The officers could have taken the more conventional route by simply ordering the dozen or so people living in the camp to disperse. But they took a more humanitarian approach to the problem, enlisting the local agencies to bring meals and other supplies and eventually to help eliminate the need for them to live in the wooded area at all. Among the groups assisting with the effort were Bethesda House of Schenectady, Catholic Charities, New Choices Recovery Center, Schenectady County Health Services, City Mission, Schenectady Community Action Program and Mohawk Opportunities.