you to be successful when assessing a clients eligibility for housing assistance and completing documentation for transitional housing. COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: OHL’s Community Health Center offers general adult healthcare, behavioral health services with counseling, medication management, STD screening and treatment, HIV testing, supportive services and more. In addition to competitive salaries, Odyssey House offers Our Housing Specialist: A 35-hour work week (as opposed to a 40-hour work week) Vacation Plan and Holiday Schedule Life Insurance. IOP WITH HOUSING: After completion of the 28-day program clients are able to reside in a safe and sober living environment while developing life skills that enable them to gain employment and a strong support system. RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT: An (approximately) 28-day program that intensively focuses on the most basic aspects of drug rehab treatment, such as abstinence from drug abuse, life skills building, and recovery tools.
The article concludes by essentializing Black New Yorkers as part of a “shifting and uncertain people”, in order to rationalize the white racial anxiety expressed in the article.MEDICALLY SUPPORTED DETOX: 40-beds appropriate for people who have chronically abused many types of substances, especially opiate pain pills, prescribed anxiety and muscle relaxing medications, alcohol, and heroin. Without the ability to freely choose where they rented, Black New Yorkers were more easily exploited by Harlem’s landlords who could charge significantly more than they would have been able to charge white tenants who could rent in other New York neighborhoods. Property values were mentioned in the sub heading, and used to both justify racial covenants and to describe the impact a multi-racial neighborhood would have on white property owners:Īnd, while we know that the work put into the organizations, alliances, agreements, and covenants failed, in the end, the cumulative impact was a self-fulfilling prophecy of overcrowded Black buildings, deprived of capital (improvements) with exorbitant rents. The offensive language used by the NYT like “menace” and “invasion”, was tightly interwoven with financial anxiety. As Black New Yorkers (and increasing numbers of southern refugees from racial terror) moved into more Harlem blocks, white residents and property owners began to organize and coordinate their segregationist behavior into compacts and agreements.
Before the first decade of the 20th century, housing segregation was conducted on an ad hoc basis, by individual supers and landlords. While America’s “Paper of Record” is an invaluable source for exploring the history of Harlem and beyond, the deeply racist language found in the New York Times’ archives continues to shock.Ĭlearly, racially motivated discrimination and segregation has always been a part of the Harlem real estate market. Racist Coverage at The New York Times – 1911 Odyssey House also said that this building will be staffed by two Odyssey House people 24/7. This new building will act more like a normal rental where tenants have individual and renewable leases. Graduates of Odyssey House programming will live on East 126th Street who have progressed beyond transitional housing. Odyssey House is building (first knocking down) 52-54 East 126th Street and reimaginging it as a ~20 single unit supportive housing facility.
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