Here’s How NYC’s $101 Billion Budget Addresses Homelessness Posted on June 14, 2022 by Jeanmarie Evelly and David Brand in City Limits The new budget directs $2.4 billion to homeless services in the coming fiscal year, invests billions more in housing over the next decade and funds an increase to rental assistance programs, but is nevertheless facing criticism from advocates who say the spend ..Read More
City looks to end pandemic-era protections for older and some medically vulnerable homeless people Posted on June 2, 2022 by Cau Lam in Gothamist At a time when New York City’s COVID-19 alert level is on high, city officials are planning to end protections put in place at the start of the pandemic to curb the spread of the virus in the city’s shelter system and safeguard older homeless people as wel ..Read More
Little Being Done to Address New York’s Prison-to-Shelter Pipeline Posted on June 3, 2022 by Ethan Geringer-Sameth in Gotham Gazette Two out of five people returning to New York City from prison last year were released to a shelter or another placement for homeless adults, according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). At roughly 2,050 people, i ..Read More
Records show Eric Adams visited fewer NYC homeless shelters than touted Posted on June 5, 2022 by Nolan Hicks in New York Post Mayor Eric Adams visited just three homeless shelters despite pledging to make unannounced inspections at facilities in the scandal-scarred system, The Post has learned. And only one of those surprise drop-ins is on the books, as is mandated by the s ..Read More
New York can solve homelessness: But we won’t get there by simply transforming the right to shelter into a right to housing Posted on November 9, 2021 by Dave Giffen in New York Daily News As cities throughout the United States are grappling with how to address the growing problem of mass homelessness, many municipalities have been turning a curious eye to New York, where, despite our many challenges, the crisis looks dramatically different than ..Read More
Home is Hope PSA and Statement Posted on November 10, 2021 EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO A HOME Forty years ago, the Coalition for the Homeless secured the legal right to shelter for New Yorkers without homes, creating a baseline of decency in our city. We need now to build on that baseline, because people need home ..Read More
Now or Never: The High Stakes of Federal Housing Funding Posted on October 21, 2021 by Rachel Fee in Gotham Gazette When President Biden and Congress first announced the details of the Build Back Better Act, they sent a loud and clear signal to housing advocates and stakeholders that help was finally on the way. The $330 billion investment into the Department of Housing and ..Read More
More than 100K NYC students were homeless at some point last school year Posted on November 8, 2021 by Michael Elsen-Rooney in New York Daily News More than 100,000 city public school students were homeless at some point during the past school year, according to new state Education Department data. For the sixth year in a row, more than 101,000 city kids lived in unstable housing, including 28,000 who sp ..Read More
Op-Ed | Section 8, or one man’s quest for a golden ticket Posted on November 3, 2021 by Winston Tokuhisa in amNY I am an aspiring software engineer, and first met Bill de Blasio, who was then the Public Advocate, in 2010 at a General Welfare Committee hearing, at which I testified about the challenges of trying to pursue an education while homeless. At the time, he was m ..Read More
