Cuomo Budget Doesn’t Include Rent Help for Homeless Posted on January 24, 2014 by Michael Howard Saul in Wall Street Journal New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal specifically blocks New York City from receiving state funds to achieve another of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign promises: helping homeless families move out of city shelters. ..Read More
How de Blasio Could Make New York City Better for Women and Mothers Posted on January 17, 2014 by Lauren Rankin in RH Reality Check After 12 years of the Bloomberg administration, the reins of New York City have officially switched to Mayor Bill de Blasio. De Blasio, who has promised a “fairer, more progressive” city, certainly has his hands full as he begins to lay out his agenda for ..Read More
Congratulations to Melissa Mark-Viverito, New Speaker of the New York City Council! Posted on January 8, 2014 by Patrick Markee Coalition for the Homeless applauds the election of Melissa Mark-Viverito as the new Speaker of the New York City Council. Mark-Viverito, the first Latina to lead the Council, is a longtime fighter for low-income and homeless New Yorkers. As co-chair of the Ci ..Read More
Searching for the homeless, NYC’s most vulnerable in bone-chilling cold Posted on January 8, 2014 by Ann Mercogliano in PIX11 The Coalition For The Homeless can serve as many as 900 people on any give night. In Midtown, the volunteers in the Coalition gathered in the brutal cold. We went along as they stopped first along the FDR with people already waiting in line for stew, milk and ..Read More
De Blasio Administration Acts Quickly to Protect Vulnerable Homeless Kids & Families from the Cold Posted on January 7, 2014 by Patrick Markee Mayor de Blasio’s new administration acted quickly to re-instate “Code Blue” shelter guarantees for homeless families seeking shelter – overturning a dangerous and much-criticized policy shift made by the Bloomberg administration that turned away famil ..Read More
‘All Hands On Deck’ To Help NYC Homeless In Cold Snap Posted on January 7, 2014 by Robin Young interviewing Patrick Markee in Here & Now In New York’s Central Park, the temperatures fell to 4 degrees this morning, breaking a record set in 1896. Cold-sensitive animals like the zebras and giraffe have been taken indoors at city zoos. Officials have declared a code blue emergency. ..Read More
NYC homeless advocates cheer Mayor de Blasio’s ‘code blue’ shelter policy Posted on January 5, 2014 by Annie Karni in New York Daily News Under the previous administration, a family that had been denied shelter would be turned away from a city shelter even on a very cold night, if the temperature dropped below 32 degrees for more than four hours. That changed with de Blasio. ..Read More
Hamill: NYC’s homeless find relief in Mayor de Blasio’s cold-weather shelter guarantee Posted on January 5, 2014 by Denis Hamill in New York Daily News The new mayor has inherited the largest homeless population in the city’s history, with 50,000 people in shelters, all of whom must pass through a South Bronx intake center to seek benefits — which makes it difficult for them to find a job. ..Read More
New Report: Half of “Advantage” Families Back in the NYC Shelter System Posted on January 2, 2014 by Patrick Markee Coalition for the Homeless released a new report with fresh evidence that the Bloomberg administration’s flawed Advantage program was a revolving door back to homelessness for thousands of families and children – and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of ..Read More
