Data Show Breadth of Challenges for City’s Homeless Students Posted on February 24, 2017 by Eliza Shapiro and Brendan Cheney in Politico New York New York City is in the midst of the largest homeless student crisis in its history, with about 100,000 students either living in shelters, foster care, or doubled up with family or friends — ten percent of the city’s entire student population. A POLITICO ..Read More
Call Governor Cuomo This Thursday Posted on February 15, 2017 Supportive housing breaks the cycle of homelessness by pairing the stability of a permanent home with on-site services for people with mental illness, addiction, HIV/AIDS, chronic illness, disability or other special needs. Gov. Cuomo committed to develop 20,0 ..Read More
In Memoriam: James Taylor Posted on January 31, 2017 by Anna Hadfield This week, the Coalition lost an important member of our family, James Taylor. James was an integral part of our Grand Central Food Program team for over 15 years, as one of our part-time drivers – though his presence felt like it had a full-time feel to it ..Read More
Add Your Name Posted on January 24, 2017 With nearly 63,000 people – including more than 24,000 children – sleeping in New York City shelters tonight and thousands more enduring homelessness statewide, it is time for bold action to address the crisis. Home Stability Support (HSS) is an innovative ..Read More
CityViews: City’s Effort to Tally Homeless Youth Won’t Add Up Posted on January 23, 2017 by Craig Hughes in City Limits Two weeks from tonight, New York City will embark on its annual HOPE effort where volunteers will engage a small number of those living on the street. For four days afterward the city will conduct the Youth Count, a tally of homeless youth primarily conducted ..Read More
A Bold Plan to Prevent Homelessness Posted on January 23, 2017 by New York Times Editorial Board in The New York Times It can’t be said enough that New York’s homelessness crisis is complicated. In a city where people are squeezed beyond their means by rising rents, just one of any number of additional stresses — a lost job, sickness, addiction, domestic violence — can ..Read More
Homeless Being Housed in Sub-Human and Unsafe Conditions in NYC, Report Shows Posted on January 19, 2017 by Nicole Schubert and Stephen Rex Brown in New York Daily News Homeless people are being housed in sub-human, unsafe conditions at hotels and other shelters, a new report by Albany pols found. The report, “Horrors in Homeless Housing,” found that well over half of the hotels in the city hosting the homeless have hundr ..Read More
NYC Homeless Clusters, Hotels Filled With Broken Toilets, Lead Paint, Mouse Poop, Report Finds Posted on January 19, 2017 by NBC News 4 New York in NBC News As of November 2016, 62,840 people were homeless in New York City, including 24,251 children, according to Coalition for the Homeless Hundreds of the city’s homeless are living in deplorable conditions that include peeling lead paint, malfunctioning toil ..Read More
Hairdressers Dole Out Blankets to Homeless New Yorkers Posted on January 19, 2017 by Melissa Koenig in LI Herald Colette Morales, a hair stylist at Who Does Your Hair? in Bellmore, was walking down 5th Avenue in Manhattan on Jan. 9 when she saw a homeless man wearing lightweight pants curled up into a ball. This man planned to stay warm at a McDonald’s that night, when ..Read More
