New York City is in the midst of the worst homelessness crisis since the Great Depression, with 61,000 people – including more than 21,000 children – sleeping in shelters each night. In order to match the unprecedented need, the City must employ every available affordable housing resource. Mayor de Blasio must align his historic Housing New York plan with the reality of record homelessness by immediately increasing the total number of housing units created for homeless households to 30,000 – 10 percent of his overall 300,000-unit plan.
House Our Future NY is an advocacy campaign formed by the Coalition for the Homeless and 66 partner organizations (and counting!), as well as homeless men, women, and children and other caring New Yorkers. We are asking Mayor de Blasio for 30,000 new units of affordable, permanent housing for homeless New Yorkers by 2026, with 24,000 of these units to be created through new construction.
Please sign our petition to Mayor de Blasio. Organizations can join the campaign here.
Download the report: “Moment of Truth: Bringing Production of Affordable Housing for Homeless Households in de Blasio’s Housing Plan to Scale.”
Follow @HouseOurFuture on Twitter for the latest developments.
“I don’t want to be a statistic forever. I am homeless but not hopeless.”…
“It’s on you, Bill!”…
“This [affordable housing] will help me be a stable, productive member of the community”…
“If housing is a human right, then why are humans being denied housing?”…
“Housing is needed for people with seriously low incomes.”…
“[Getting affordable housing] is a blessing not only to me, but to the communities of families that have nothing at all and now have a home to call their own.”…
“A permanent home would mean peace of mind and serenity.”…
“We have a real big crisis that will get worse if we don’t start putting people in permanent homes.”…
“Permanent housing has given me the mindset, as well as the actual opportunity, to do better and be better.”…
The Coalition for the Homeless recently launched House Our Future NY to call on Mayor de Blasio to increase the number of permanent affordable housing units set aside for homeless New Yorkers, and we would like to invite your organization to join our campaign.
Currently, only 15,000 units of the Mayor’s 300,000-unit Housing NY 2.0 plan are set aside for homeless families and individuals, despite record homelessness in New York City. We are urging the Mayor to immediately direct his housing development agencies to increase the total number of housing units for homeless households to 30,000, with 24,000 of these units financed and created as new construction. We officially launched this campaign with the release of a policy brief in January 2018, and reiterated the request in our annual State of the Homeless report in March 2018 and in April 2019.
In order to amplify this critical housing goal, we want to include our allies: organizations serving homeless families, single adults, people with disabilities, domestic violence survivors, and runaway and homeless youth. We are soliciting organizational partners to sign on to the campaign and help with organizing grassroots support for our future multi-pronged advocacy efforts including rallies and other public actions.
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Endorsing Organizations:
The Ali Forney Center Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health Bailey House Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, Inc. Barrier Free Living Broadway Housing Communities Bronx Health & Housing Consortium Care for the Homeless The Church of the Village (NYC) CitiLeaf Housing Citizens’ Committee for Children Coalition for Homeless Youth Coalition for the Homeless College and Community Fellowship The Collegiate Churches of New York Community Access Community Service Society Comunilife Covenant House New York Emergency Shelter Network Encore Community Services Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Fierce! Gateway Housing GEMS Harm Reduction Coalition Henry Street Settlement Homeless Services United Hope’s Door Housing Conservation Coordinators Housing Works Human.nyc Hunger Action Network of NYS Hunger Free America Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing Kingdom Faith Developers Lab/Shul The Legal Aid Society Mekong NYC Midtown South Community Council Mutual Housing Association of NY (MHANY) My Dog is My Home National Working Positive Coalition Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter Neighbors Together New Destiny Housing New York Communities for Change New York Society for Ethical Culture New York State Council of Churches Partnership for the Homeless Pax Christi Metro New York Picture the Homeless Presbyterian Church (USA) Safe Horizon Services for the UnderServed Sisters of Charity of New York Society for the Advancement of Judaism St Ann’s Church of Morrisania Strong Families Deliverance Ministries Inc. Tenants & Neighbors Tenants Political Action Committee University Settlement and The Door Urban Justice Center Urban Pathways VOCAL NY WE ACT For Environmental Justice Win
67 Endorsers as of September 19, 2019
Endorsing Elected Officials:
Council Member Stephen Levin (Chair, Committee on General Welfare) Public Advocate and former Council Member Jumaane Williams Former Public Advocate Letitia James Comptroller Scott M. Stringer Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. Queens Borough President Melinda Katz Council Member Ben Kallos (Co-Chair, Progressive Caucus) Council Member Keith Powers (Vice Co-Chair, Progressive Caucus) Council Member Carlos Menchaca (Vice Co-Chair, Progressive Caucus) Council Member Adrienne Adams Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel Council Member Diana Ayala Council Member Inez Barron Council Member Fernando Cabrera Council Member Margaret Chin Council Member Andrew Cohen Council Member Costa Constantinides Council Member Robert Cornegy Council Member Rafael Espinal Council Member Mathieu Eugene Council Member Vanessa Gibson Council Member Barry Grodenchik Council Member Robert Holden Council Member Peter Koo Council Member Brad Lander Council Member Mark Levine Council Member I. Daneek Miller Council Member Francisco Moya Council Member Bill Perkins Council Member Antonio Reynoso Council Member Donovan J. Richards Council Member Carlina Rivera Council Member Helen Rosenthal Council Member Rafael Salamanca Council Member Ritchie Torres Council Member Mark Treyger Council Member James Van Bramer
39 Endorsers as of March 4, 2019
