Rights Under Attack, Leadership in Retreat
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Give a gift of joy to a homeless child
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.
Coalition for the Homeless announced the recipient of the 9th annual Compassionate Communities Award: Floyd Bennett Field Neighbors (FBFN).
Many folks enjoy a few days off for the end-of-the-year holidays, but there are some workers who don’t take the time off or can’t. We hear from a few of them.
Today, the Coalition for the Homeless along with Arnold NY advertising unveiled a new augmented reality experience, the Children’s Tree, to support the organization’s annual Holiday Toy Drive for homeless children.
Staff at the Coalition for the Homeless headquarters in Lower Manhattan are busily sorting through dozens of donated toys as part of their annual holiday toy drive this time of year. The initiative aims to collect and distribute 10,000 toys to children living in city shelters before Christmas.
Today, Coalition for the Homeless, together with Legal Aid Society, Win, and 20 other groups, sent a letter to Mayor Eric Adams calling on his administration to immediately take steps to protect both new New Yorkers and immigrants who have long called New York City home from the draconian actions threatened by the incoming Trump administration…
Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that the shelters, including the controversial facility at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, will be shut by March. As of Oct. 31, there were 212 migrant shelters in New York City and elsewhere in the state housing 59,030 people…
The New York city mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Tuesday that an additional 25 shelters used to house asylum seekers will be closing in the coming two months….
Chantel Martin, an East New York resident getting off the subway at the Utica A/C stop Monday, said she was in disbelief after hearing that a jury had found Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely on an F train last May…
The acquittal of Daniel Penny in the death of Jordan Neely sharply divided the political establishment Monday in a case that has highlighted New York’s failure to adequately care for mentally ill and homeless residents…
“We are extremely disappointed that Daniel Penny will not be held accountable for Jordan Neely’s tragic death. Jordan deserved a life of dignity and respect – and deserved the help that he sought, but could not get…”
Commemorating Right to Shelter Day, and exploring both its historical significance and its very real impact on the lives of homeless New Yorkers.
