Year: 2018

Mayor de Blasio has been under constant fire for offering homeless New Yorkers access to just 5 percent of the units created and preserved by his 12-year, 300,000-unit affordable housing plan, even as homelessness has reached a new all-time record high. He has ..Read More

Staff at the Coalition for the Homeless headquarters are busy sorting donated toys. Toys that are destined for children living in homeless shelters around the city. Nearly 64,000 New Yorkers are in shelters right now, 23,000 are kids. “All of those famil ..Read More

The leaders behind Welcoming Neighbors Northwest Bronx will tell you that doing something special for those looking to get back on their feet is all the thanks they need. At the same time, however, they’re not going to say no to recognition, like the honor r ..Read More

A Bronx program is empowering children who live in a shelter to succeed and become better people. Organizers call Broadway Family Plaza Transitional Housing a means to get families ready for a permanent home. A program created by Working Families called “ ..Read More

City Hall is refusing to come clean about the number of homeless they’ve actually moved out of shelters and into city-financed permanent housing, a homeless support group is charging. The Coalition for the Homeless filed a lawsuit Friday after the agencies M ..Read More

With the exploding number of homeless still hovering at record levels, Mayor de Blasio will announce Tuesday a nearly-done deal to convert 468 shelter apartments into permanent, affordable apartments for the homeless. Known as “cluster-site” apartments, th ..Read More