200 4: S PECIAL MASTER PANEL RELEASES REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS

In June of 2004, the Special Master Panel released it’s findings and recommendations. They met five times over a one year period with members of the P TH EAU Campaign and Women and Families Committee. Many of their recommendations were modelled after or were consistent with what families impacted by the EAU were calling for.

Dawn Quinones, JeanetteLopez, Michael Slater of the PTH EAU Campaign receivingthe SamuelPeabody award for Community Activism from the Citizens Committee on Children with members of the Special Master’s Panel. October 25, 2005

2004: ENDING HOMELESS PREFERENCE FOR SECT I ON 8

The twisted logic of the Bloomberg administration’s homeless policies were based on their belief that homeless families were coming to the EAU and applying for shelter to game the system and get an apartment. In October of 2004, they ended the homeless preference for Section 8. Replacing it with a series of flawed voucher programs catalyzed the founding of PTH’s Rental Subsidies campaign in late 2006.