Year: 2010

Currently there are more than 39,000 homeless men, women, and children sleeping each night in New York City municipal shelters, an all-time record.  And during the past year the number of homeless families and single adults in shelters increased significantly ..Read More

The premise behind Mayor Bloomberg’s shelter denial plan — which was fortunately blocked by a New York State Supreme Court ruling this week — has always been more than a little far-fetched and absurd. Since November, Bloomberg administratio ..Read More

Today Mayor Bloomberg announced revisions to his ten-year housing plan, but one thing wasn’t revised:  The plan still shortchanges homeless New Yorkers. As the New York Times reported, the revised “New Housing Marketplace Plan” will seek t ..Read More

As recently reported in Gay City News, next month the City’s largest drop-in center for street homeless adults–the Open Door–will be closing. This follows a year-long reconfiguration of the drop-in system, which used to consist of eleven cit ..Read More

As reported by Cindy Rodriguez of WNYC last Friday, the preliminary release of the 2010 Mayor’s Management Report confirms what we have been seeing over the past many months–homelessness has increased dramatically. The report covers the progress o ..Read More

Thanks to the actions of Coalition supporters, New York State’s schools chief has promised to help Rosa Bracero and other homeless students — but more reforms are still needed. Late last week, Mary Brosnahan, the Coalition’s executive directo ..Read More