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Today’s Read: From Campaign Promise to Court Appeal: Mayor Mamdani’s Reversal on Housing Vouchers

A long-running fight over a proposed men’s shelter in Brooklyn has entered a new phase under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with demolition resuming despite over two years of protests and local officials pressing the new administration to reverse course…

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Roughly 340 New Yorkers gathered at The Plaza Ballroom on Friday, April 24th, for the Coalition’s Women Mean Business Luncheon. The annual spring event is a celebration of the Coalition for the Homeless’ First Step Job Training Program, recognizing the courage and determination of the program’s graduates and raising crucial funds to support the program…

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More than a half million dollars raised at the 2026 Women Mean Business Luncheon!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to move the primary shelter intake facility for men forced the city to quickly relocate hundreds of homeless people.

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Death raises questions about Mamdani’s homeless intake overhaul

Dozens of affordable housing advocates gathered Wednesday outside Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence on the Upper East Side, to protest Zohran Mamdani’s decision to backpedal on his campaign promise to expand a city rental assistance program…

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NYC housing advocates protest Mamdani’s pivot away from CityFHEPS as budget crisis threatens rental assistance program

A judge temporarily blocked the city from opening a new intake shelter in the East Village Wednesday after a group of neighborhood residents filed a court challenge over how the Mamdani administration went about closing the existing 30th Street shelter…

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Judge blocks NYC opening of East Village homeless shelter intake center

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The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless issued the following statement in response to the court’s ruling granting the plaintiffs a temporary restraining order in litigation challenging the planned opening of a men’s homeless intake site in the East Village…

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Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless Respond to Court Ruling on East Village Intake Shelter

A long-running fight over a proposed men’s shelter in Brooklyn has entered a new phase under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with demolition resuming despite over two years of protests and local officials pressing the new administration to reverse course…

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Brooklyn homeless shelter battle enters new phase as Mamdani advances delayed project

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Testimony of Coalition for the Homeless before the Housing and Building Committee of the New York City Council, providing insight into the impact of proposed funding for affordable housing and related programs serving all unhoused New Yorkers…

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Testimony of Coalition for the Homeless before the Housing and Building Committee of the New York City Council on the Housing and Building Committee’s Preliminary Budget for Fiscal Year 2027

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appealed a court ruling that requires the city to expand the hugely popular — but massively expensive — city-funded housing voucher program called CityFHEPS…

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Candidate Mamdani Backed Expanding Housing Vouchers. As Mayor, He’s Appealing a Court Order To Do So

It is a remarkable fact of life in this relentless city that every person has a right to shelter here. This has been true for almost forty-five years: in 1981, in response to a class-action suit on behalf of homeless men, the state Supreme Court determined that New York City had an obligation to care for its needy…

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The Right to a Bed in Zohran Mamdani’s New York