Year: 2019

One of the people making the call for urgent action to help get homeless individuals off the streets after this weekend’s deadly attack is Giselle Routhier, policy director for the Coalition for the Homeless. She joined Dana Tyler on CBSN New York on Tuesday ..Read More

A modest gathering inside City Hall Park Thursday evening aimed at raising awareness to New York City’s ongoing homeless crisis and the desperate need for more affordable housing. This was organized with a single goal: to get the attention of Mayor Bill de B ..Read More

In the summer of 1988, Chris Henry, a homeless man, was riding the city subways when he noticed a flier advertising an annual “sleep out” protest to call attention to homelessness at City Hall Park. Henry decided he had nothing better to do so he h ..Read More

When Mayor Bill de Blasio was elected mayor in 2013, advocates for the homeless saw him as a leader who could bring meaningful change to New York City’s affordable-housing crisis. They were so convinced of his commitment to the issue that they stopped their ..Read More

We the Commuters goes live-in-studio with a look at homelessness in the subways, hosted by Shumita Basu along with her fellow WNYC and Gothamist reporters. The number of people sleeping on the trains is up as commuters confront “compassion fat ..Read More

The city shouldn’t force homeless New Yorkers to put big chunks of their scant income into government-controlled accounts to avoid being kicked out of shelters, say a pair of pols along with homeless advocates. The city Homeless Services Department is holdin ..Read More