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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Advocates and some City Council members say expanding CityFHEPS housing assistance is key to preventing homelessness. Budget watchdogs warn it’s unsustainable.
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…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous…
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…
