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Challenging NYC’s Shortage of Shelter Beds for Homeless Adults

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Patrick Markee

As the Coalition warned back in October, the City of New York is running out of shelter beds for the rising number of homeless men and women. Since then, this tragic situation has gone from bad to worse, even before the coldest months of winter have arrived. ..Read More

Shortage of Beds for Homeless in City

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Julie Bosman in New York Times

Coalition for the Homeless Sues City of New York About Shortage of Shelter

Posted on December 9, 2009

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS AND LEGAL AID SOCIETY SUE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SHELTER TO HOMELESS NEW YORKERS SUIT: CITY IS OUT OF SHELTER BEDS AND DENYING HOMELESS NEW YORKERS SHELTER AS WINTER ..Read More

Is It Time Yet, Mayor Bloomberg?

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Patrick Markee

Mayor Bloomberg said there would be “plenty of time…after the election” to talk about homelessness. With NYC homelessness at all-time record levels, is it time yet? Back on August 10th, according to the New York Daily News’ Daily Polit ..Read More

Lawyer: Homeless Families Still Getting the Runaround

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Mike Reicher in City Limits

NYC Women with AIDS See Their Progress in Survival Reverse as Funding Is Redistributed

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Giselle Routhier

As recently reported in the Huffington Post, a new study done by Health People reports that New York City’s progress in reducing death rates among residents with HIV/AIDS in the Bronx and Brooklyn has collapsed since 2006–the year the Bloomberg ..Read More

Thirty Years of the Legal Right to Shelter in New York City

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Patrick Markee

December 5th marks an important anniversary: Thirty years since the first landmark court ruling in Callahan v. Carey affirming the legal right to shelter for homeless New Yorkers. When modern homelessness first emerged in the late 1970s, the City of New York ..Read More

Homeless agency’s use of loophole under court review

Posted on December 2, 2009 by John Bonizio in Bronx Times

A Formerly Homeless Man Is Documenting First-Hand Stories of Homeless

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Giselle Routhier

How many New Yorkers are guilty of walking past a homeless man or woman on the streets and pretending not to see them? As reported on CNN today, Mark Horvath, a formerly homeless man has set out to use technology to combat the invisibility of the homeless and ..Read More

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Challenging NYC’s Shortage of Shelter Beds for Homeless Adults

Shortage of Beds for Homeless in City

Coalition for the Homeless Sues City of New York About Shortage of Shelter

Is It Time Yet, Mayor Bloomberg?

Lawyer: Homeless Families Still Getting the Runaround

NYC Women with AIDS See Their Progress in Survival Reverse as Funding Is Redistributed

Thirty Years of the Legal Right to Shelter in New York City

Homeless agency’s use of loophole under court review

A Formerly Homeless Man Is Documenting First-Hand Stories of Homeless