Enhancing Access to Supportive Housing is Key to Criminal Justice Reform - City Limits

Enhancing Access to Supportive Housing is Key to Criminal Justice Reform - City Limits

“A person who is unhoused before incarceration is no less vulnerable after release. But our current policy treats time in jail as if it erases their homelessness. It doesn’t—it makes it worse.” A dormitory at Fortune Society’s transitional housing program Manhattan. (Adi Talwar) Every day, New Yorkers with mental illness or substance use disorder are discharged from Rikers Island with no place to go. Too many of our neighbors are trapped in a re…