Affordable Housing for Homeless New Yorkers
Just $20 buys one warm coat!
Benefiting the Coalition’s First Step Job Training Program
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.
Decades of failed housing policies, combined with unaffordable rent has led to a homelessness crisis in New York City, with over 100,000 people now sleeping in shelters each night and hundreds of thousands more spending over half their income on rent…
Nolberto Jimbo-Niola, 52, died outside in the bitter cold this winter and was found on a Queens park bench with discharge papers from a local hospital…
The Mamdani administration’s preliminary budget could end a program that helps homeless young people leave the shelter system and find permanent places to live…
New York City’s hulking homeless shelter in the former Bellevue psychiatric hospital, which for decades has served as the first stop for people seeking placement in the shelter system…
“The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless are deeply concerned by reports that New York City plans to temporarily close the 30th Street Men’s Shelter and its intake offices…
Each Black History Month is an opportunity to honor the contributions, struggles, and achievements of Black Americans, recognizing their role in U.S. history.
Harsh winter weather has proven to be an Achilles’ heel for many new mayors, cutting through the ideological thrust of their hustings with an early test of managerial chops…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city will resume clearing makeshift homeless encampments, promising to take a more humane approach to a practice he previously criticized…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will place the Department of Homeless Services in charge of the sweeps, replacing the Police Department as leader of the interagency efforts…
The Coalition for the Homeless and The Legal Aid Society issued the following statement on the Mamdani Administration revamping homeless sweeps…
