Monthly Journalism Award
The Washington Monthly Journalism Award for April 1994 is presented to Malcolm Gladwell The Washington Post How does a homeless family end up in a room in a welfare hotel costing taxpayers...
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...And why can't the city take her out of the hotel...
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...Because the feds could not help her, the city had to put her in a welfare hotel at $2,250 a month...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Because there aren't enough low income apartments in New York City...
...The answer, according to this trenchant look at low income housing policy, is a perverse web of state and federal laws that makes the most expensive solution to homelessness the easiest for city officials to offer...
...The state government could not help her because the federal government could not help her...
...The problem, as Gladwell shows by following one woman's path to a New York City hotel, has a vexing circularity: "Because there are not enough low income apartments in New York City, Ivette Lopez could not afford her own place...
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...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award for April 1994 is presented to Malcolm Gladwell The Washington Post How does a homeless family end up in a room in a welfare hotel costing taxpayers $2,250 a month...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in July and August will close August 15...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
...The winner will be announced in the November issue...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 7
