Author: Gabriela Sandoval Requena

Heinze, 37, has been homeless since she lost her rent subsidy two years ago. She stays in this apartment, for which the city pays $2,900 a month. The money goes to a non-profit provider who leases the apartment from a private landlord and is supposed to provid ..Read More

Homeless LGBT youths are getting a new place to stay in The Bronx. Grammy Award-winning singer Cyndi Lauper and nonprofit housing company West End Residences are teaming up to build the “True Colors” residences, a complex with 30 studio apartments ..Read More

Call him M. He lives in Freedom House — the hotel-turned-homeless shelter on Manhattan’s West 95th Street, two blocks from a concert hall that the New York Times once dubbed a palace of performing arts. ..Read More

Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor, Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and the executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, Mary Brosnahan, spoke about preventive measures designed to keep New Yorkers from becoming homeless. ..Read More

Public officials and the relatively financially secure have long been guilty of turning the homeless and the poor into scapegoats — and making examples of the people perhaps in most need of compassion and help from their neighbors. It happens everywhere in ..Read More

On the streets of Manhattan, a homeless person can be invisible — even when it’s Richard Gere shooting the drama Time Out of Mind. ..Read More

Every day I commute into the city along with hundreds of thousands of other New Yorkers. On my walk to the subway, I pass by a homeless man. For months and months, I walked by him and felt bad about it. ..Read More

What can be done about homeless people, those poor, sick, jobless souls who just can’t seem to get their acts together and whose suffering  makes the streets and sidewalks so uncomfortable for the rest of us? ..Read More