2024 - Coalition For The Homeless

Letter to the Editor: Migrants and End of Covid Restrictions Fuel Jump in Homelessness

Posted on December 30, 2024

The Coalition for the Homeless responds to Jason DeParle’s piece, Migrants and End of Covid Restrictions Fuel Jump in Homelessness, published in The New York Times on December 27, 2024. To the editors, Jason DeParle’s article leaves readers with two in ..Read More

Suspect in fatal New York subway burning indicted on charges of murder and arson

Posted on December 27, 2024 by Hanna Park, Gloria Pazmino and Sabrina Shulman in CNN

The real implications of Daniel Penny’s Acquittal

Posted on December 27, 2024 by Will Watts

As I read the news about the verdict in the Daniel Penny trial, an all too familiar feeling emerged – a feeling of the failure of yet another system to recognize that my life and those of other Black men matter. But this time that feeling was more intense as ..Read More

Subway Burning Highlights Difficulty of Identifying Homeless Victims

Posted on December 25, 2024 by Mihir Zaveri in New York Times

These workers don’t take the holidays off

Posted on December 22, 2024 by By Ryan Benk, Ayesha Rascoe, Ed McNulty in NPR

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

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Letter to the Editor: Migrants and End of Covid Restrictions Fuel Jump in Homelessness

Suspect in fatal New York subway burning indicted on charges of murder and arson

The real implications of Daniel Penny’s Acquittal

Subway Burning Highlights Difficulty of Identifying Homeless Victims

These workers don’t take the holidays off

City to Close Dozens of Sites Housing Migrants, Citing Dip in Shelter Population

New York to Close Giant Family Shelter to Protect Migrants From Trump

New York mayor closes shelters for asylum seekers amid rightward turn

NYC to close migrant shelter at Brooklyn airfield by early 2025