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Protesters March to Mayor’s Doorstep to Oppose Plan to Move Homeless Out of NYC Hotels

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Ida Siegal in NBC New York

Homeless advocates marched up to the Mayor Bill de Blasio’s home on Sunday to protest the city’s decision to remove some 300 people living in hotels configured for temporary housing. As a way to contain the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless pop ..Read More

‘Domino Displacement’: How Homeless Families All Over NYC Could Be Uprooted By Upper West Side Fiasco

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Sophia Chang in Gothamist

The city’s plan to shuffle homeless residents around to different shelters to appease aggrieved Upper West Siders could mean that families living in a Brooklyn shelter get abruptly sent to different facilities all over the city, uprooting their kids just ..Read More

Today’s Read: de Blasio Faces Public Scorn, Internal Dissent Over Homeless Move

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Jacquelyn Simone

From the start of the pandemic, it was eminently clear that homeless New Yorkers sleeping in dorm-style shelters were at heightened risk for contracting and dying from COVID-19. The Coalition for the Homeless and other advocates urged the Department of Homeles ..Read More

Protect the lives of homeless New Yorkers

Posted on September 3, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has cruelly reinforced the fact that housing is health care. Without the basic safety and privacy provided by stable housing, tens of thousands of New Yorkers experiencing homelessness have endured compounding risks for contractin ..Read More

Dehumanizing the homeless must stop

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Giselle Routhier and Dave Giffen in New York Daily News

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our city is complex and far-reaching, the guiding principle behind our collective response to it must remain unchanged: Do everything we can to save lives. Whatever successes we have had toward that end have been th ..Read More

What Happened When Homeless Men Moved Into a Liberal Neighborhood

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Daniel E. Slotnik in The New York Times

The guests arrived at the Lucerne Hotel, two blocks from Central Park, carrying their belongings, stepping off buses and filling the hotel’s empty rooms, which typically cost more than $200 a night They were not tourists nor business travelers but residents ..Read More

How to Combat NIMBYism in Your Neighborhood

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Elizabeth Lepro

Too often, communities react to the news of a shelter opening nearby with resistance, as they rely on harmful stereotypes of our homeless neighbors. We’ve seen this happen recently. Over the past few months – and thanks to relentless advocacy by the Coalit ..Read More

Advocates Weigh In as Patients, Doctors, and Scientists Learn More About Post-COVID Illnesses

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Shelly Nortz

On August 13th, members of the COVID-19 Working Group of New York City, of which the Coalition for the Homeless is a member, sent a letter requesting a meeting with the new Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), Dr. ..Read More

Donate to Project: Back to School

Posted on August 13, 2020

Project: Back to School provides children living in NYC shelters with new backpacks stocked with school supplies for the upcoming year. ..Read More

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