Year: 2011

Press Release: Strong Economy for All Coalition Leaders of New York’s community groups and unions launched the Strong Economy for All Coalition Tuesday to press for policies to benefit working, middle-class and low income New Yorkers, including retaining ..Read More

Yesterday the New York Daily News published a comprehensive article on the failures of the Advantage program, with fresh evidence that the program is little more than a revolving door back to homelessness for vulnerable children and families. The article, w ..Read More

Watch Street Vets, a new full-length documentary by Issac Goeckeritz. The video chronicles a year in the life of ten homeless veterans living at a transitional housing facility and provides a candid view of the long-term scars of personal tragedy that, in man ..Read More

On March 3, Shelly Nortz of the Coalition for the Homeless Albany Office testified before the New York State Legislature regarding the 2011-2012 Executive Budget Proposal for Health. She underscored several of our recommendations to the Medicaid Redesign Tea ..Read More

In this edition of Safety Net, we focus on solutions. In “Cuomo’s Potential: Reduce Homelessness” Shelly Nortz, our Deputy Executive Director for Policy, outlines five recommendations that would help Governor Cuomo to reduce homlessness, incl ..Read More