These workers don’t take the holidays off Posted on December 22, 2024 by By Ryan Benk, Ayesha Rascoe, Ed McNulty in NPR ..Read More
City to Close Dozens of Sites Housing Migrants, Citing Dip in Shelter Population Posted on December 10, 2024 by Jeanmarie Evelly in City Limits Officials attributed the closures to a steady decline in the number of people in the shelter system over the last several months—though nearly 55,000 migrants and asylum seekers remain, the majority of them families with children. ..Read More
New York to Close Giant Family Shelter to Protect Migrants From Trump Posted on December 10, 2024 by Luis Ferré-Sadurní in The New York Times New York City officials announced on Tuesday that they would close a giant tent complex in Brooklyn that houses some 2,000 migrants, a pre-emptive step meant to fend off concerns that the shelter could be targeted by the Trump administration. ..Read More
New York mayor closes shelters for asylum seekers amid rightward turn Posted on December 10, 2024 by Marina Dunbar in The Guardian The New York city mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Tuesday that an additional 25 shelters used to house asylum seekers will be closing in the coming two months. ..Read More
NYC to close migrant shelter at Brooklyn airfield by early 2025 Posted on December 10, 2024 by Amanda Garcia in ABC News The Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at Floyd Bennett Field, located at a former airfield in the borough of Brooklyn, joins a growing list of 25 shelters the city has either closed or is in the processing of shutting down. ..Read More
Right to Shelter: the legal protection that changed a million lives in New York City Posted on December 5, 2024 by G. Worth December 5, 1979 was a historic day that would transform the lives of countless individuals experiencing homelessness. On that day, the New York State Supreme Court issued its first injunction in the Callahan v. Carey lawsuit and ordered the City and State to ..Read More
2024 Nonprofit Power Players Posted on December 4, 2024 by PoliticsNY and amNY Metro in PoliticsNY Dave Giffen is Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the oldest advocacy and direct service organization serving people without homes. The Coalition established NY’s legal Right to Shelter in 1981 and serves as independent monitor of the muni ..Read More
Toy drive aims to collect 10k toys for homeless kids Posted on December 3, 2024 by Roger Clark in New York 1 Staff at the Coalition for the Homeless headquarters in Lower Manhattan are busily sorting through dozens of donated toys as part of their annual holiday toy drive this time of year. The initiative aims to collect and distribute 10,000 toys to children living ..Read More
How Homelessness Can Begin: Concerning Youth HOPE Month Posted on November 21, 2024 by J. Powlovich and G. Worth In 1978, New York became the first state in the nation to pass its own Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA), modeled on federal legislation passed in 1974. The RHYA recognizes that young people under the age of 25 years-old who are experiencing homelessness a ..Read More
