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We bring hot nutritious meals to those living rough on the streets of the city, every night of the year.
We provide lifesaving services to more than 11,000 homeless and at-risk individuals and families per year.
We give homeless families and single adults the dignity and stability of a home of their own.
We offer homeless and low-income women the training and support they need to find living-wage jobs.
We give homeless kids the help and support they need to keep up with the peers at school.
We advance long-term solutions to the crisis of homelessness and defend the rights of homeless people.
Updates from the Coalition for the Homeless. To see our recent statements, visit our Press Room.
(NEW YORK, NY) – The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless, following a court-supervised mediation led by New York State Supreme Court Judge Gerald Lebovits, announced a settlement with the City to end the government’s legal challenge to New York’s long-standing Right to Shelter for single adults, established under Callahan v. Carey in 1981.
The Coalition for the Homeless reached a settlement with the City of New York Friday, adding new emergency terms to the 1981 decree that paved the way for the city’s unique right to a shelter bed.
NEW YORK (WABC) — The legal agreement between New York City and homeless advocates scales back the decades-old ‘Right to Shelter’ law as the city tries to find housing for thousands of migrant adults.
The Coalition for the Homeless and Legal Aid Society testified before the New York City Council’s Committee on General Welfare. As the independent monitor of the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter system and counsel in cases that established the right to shelter in NYC, we offered insights into the impact of proposed funding for the shelter system and programs aiding unhoused New Yorkers…
Lazaro Sanchez was living on the A train when an outreach worker in an orange jacket offered him a chance. After a slow, steady slide into homelessness, Sanchez had spent around five years sleeping on the subway…
March is Women’s History Month, a celebration dedicated to commemorating and uplifting the contributions of women throughout our Nation’s history. Few have left such an enduring legacy on New York City as Shirley Chisholm…
The Coalition for the Homeless and The Legal Aid Society submitted testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on General Welfare in response to findings by the Department of Investigation regarding manipulation of monthly eligibility rate data by DSS and Intros. 210-2024 and 349-2024.
Last week, a damning piece in The New York Times exposed the inexplicably poor results of Governor Hochul’s Migrant Resettlement Assistance Program (MRAP) which, after eight months, has managed to resettle only a tiny fraction of the families it was supposed to resettle throughout the state…
The city’s housing vacancy rate plunged to 1.41 percent in 2023, the lowest it has been since 1968, officials announced Thursday. Options were particularly scarce for low-income New Yorkers: just 0.39 percent of units renting for under $1,100 were available last year.
This year, the Coalition for the Homeless remembers Philip A. Payton Jr., a real estate entrepreneur, who was committed to breaking down racial barriers in the New York housing sector.
It’s a tough pill for Adama Bah to swallow. She’s meeting a family from Senegal that is about to be evicted from their shelter. They’ve hit the city’s 60-day limit…
On January 31, 2024, Columbia University Professor and Coalition co-founder Kim Hopper PhD delivered a keynote speech at the January 31, 2024 UPSTREAM: Frontline Solutions to Homelessness symposium. These are his remarks.
The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness to its highest reported level as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, according to federal officials…
After four decades, New York City’s right to shelter law faced a policy shift in October under Mayor Eric Adams. Known as a 60-day rule, the new policy imposes a limit on the amount of time an asylum seeker could stay in City shelter facilities.
It’s the dead of winter in New York City and shelter evictions for asylum seekers and other new arrivals are well and truly underway. After 30 days, single adults are expected to pack up their few precious things and get going…
The Coalition for the Homeless has launched a new ad campaign showing the tent cities that may soon appear in New York City public spaces if Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul succeed in gutting the legal Right to Shelter…
The NY SANE coalition, representing hundreds of housing and tenant organizations, labor unions, faith groups, advocates, service providers, and other organizations throughout New York State – today joined in action to hold two major rallies in New York City and Albany in support of the legal Right to Shelter.
“Behind Acts of Violence, Years of Mistakes” (front page, Nov. 21) effectively underscores the decades of neglect, underfunding and mismanagement that have made New York’s mental health system such a resounding failure for so many people in our city…