This is prohibited by New York City Housing Authority, but another bill, currently before the New York City Council, aims to prevent housing discrimination on the basis of arrest record or criminal history. We can’t stay with, or even visit, family or friends who live in public housing projects. It could be significant for formerly incarcerated people who are shut out of other housing and programs. “They should be allowed to apply for various resources in advance of their release date so they get a chance of not going from prison to shelter,” the senator told me. Its language has recently been updated to include people about to be released from state prisons. The bill would provide vouchers to people in immediate need of housing assistance, either facing eviction or homelessness. 2804B), which had support from both the senate and the assembly last year, but ultimately did not receive that same support from the Governor’s office during budget negotiations. In January, Brian Kavanagh, a progressive Democrat who chairs the Senate Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development, reintroduced the Housing Access Voucher Program (S. Our access to assistance is currently being discussed among New York state legislators. The state corrections department told me in an email that about 38 percent of people released in 2017 returned to the agency’s custody within three years.
Brooks as we sat at a table bolted to the floor in the communal space of a cellblock in Sullivan Correctional Facility, the prison where we both currently live.įeeling priced out and left out, many parolees turn to illegal hustles. Many of us head to the Port Authority in New York City. There isn’t much assistance for people getting out of prison. Among all releases to community supervision in New York state during 2021 (not just those released from prisons), about 23 percent went directly to shelters, according to the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision another 8 percent were “undomiciled,” or went to places like halfway houses and hotels. Brooks figures he is likely to join thousands of other formerly incarcerated people who will leave prison and have nowhere to live. The average rent in Manhattan is $4,200, in Brooklyn it’s about $3,700. Today the space would go for more than $3,000 a month.
Brooks went away, he was living with his newborn daughter and girlfriend in a three-bedroom apartment in a brownstone in Crown Heights that rented for about $800 a month. He’s less confident about where he’ll live.īefore Mr. He believes he has a good shot at getting out after he appears before the parole board in January 2024. Now 52, more mature and remorseful, he has a clean disciplinary record and a bachelor’s degree. Brooks and four others were arrested and charged with murder, and he was eventually sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Kevin Brooks hopes he won’t have to go to a homeless shelter.
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