Continuing to Pressure Cuomo to Keep His Promise to Homeless New Yorkers Posted on June 30, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone The legislative session has ended, but the fight for supportive housing continues. On Tuesday, the Coalition joined homeless New Yorkers and other advocates from the Campaign 4 NY/NY Housing in a picket line outside The Plaza Hotel, where Governor Cuomo was ho ..Read More
A Hospital Offers Frequent ER Patients an Out — Free Housing Posted on June 29, 2016 by Miles Bryan in NPR For a lot of us, the hospital’s emergency room is a stressful place. Not so for Glenn Baker. When Baker, 44, steps into the emergency room at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, he’s completely comfortable. He has a favorite double-wide ..Read More
100 Homeless Students Honored for Graduating High School Posted on June 29, 2016 by Carolina Leid in WABC It was a special night for a group of high school students who had it rough growing up. They were homeless and went from shelter to shelter for years. But they didn’t let their circumstance prevent them from achieving. Despite all the odds, they’re ..Read More
Life Inside the Hotels for New York’s Homeless Posted on June 28, 2016 by John Surico in Vice The Verve Hotel doesn’t stick out. The tan, six-floor building in the Dutch Kills neighborhood of Queens is typical of the quiet industrial area, surrounded as it is by bodyshops, single-family homes, a rumbling elevated train, and hotels of a modernist ..Read More
New York Attempts to Fight Street Homelessness Block by Block Posted on June 28, 2016 by Mirela Iverac in WNYC Mayor de Blasio has sent out dozens of city workers to search for the homeless on the streets, in an effort to combat the problem — and fend off the criticism he faced last summer. At a cost of $2.6 million, the city has hired 52 canvassers who walk every bl ..Read More
For the Second Year, Rents in Some Stabilized Apartments in New York City Will Not Increase Posted on June 27, 2016 by Mireya Navarro in The New York Times The board that sets rents for more than one million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City voted on Monday to freeze rents for one-year leases for the second year in a row. By a vote of 7 to 0, with two abstentions, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board ..Read More
100 Homeless New Yorkers to be Honored for Graduating From NYC Public High Schools Posted on June 25, 2016 by Ben Chapman and Lisa L. Colangelo in New York Daily News More than 50,000 students will graduate from New York City high schools in the Class of 2016. But that special milestone may have the most meaning for 100 homeless grads who will be recognized Wednesday at a special ceremony in Manhattan for earning their dipl ..Read More
Today’s Listen: Unfulfilled Hopes and Promises, State and City Unfinished Business Posted on June 24, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone On the most recent episode of the podcast Max & Murphy on Housing, Coalition for the Homeless President & CEO Mary Brosnahan and Deputy Executive Director for Policy Shelly Nortz discussed current homelessness policies and the need for further action b ..Read More
State Promises and City Progress on Homelessness Posted on June 24, 2016 by Jarrett Murphy in City Limits It has been quite a year for homeless policy in New York City. It was last summer that the press frenzied over homeless encampments around the city, prompting a police crackdown. Then came the fall, and the mayor’s announcement he’d stop waiting fo ..Read More