Category: CFTH Blog

The citywide housing affordability crisis is a major force driving near-record numbers of families and individuals into homelessness. Tonight, nearly 23,000 children will sleep in shelters, even though more than a third of homeless families include someone who ..Read More

Finding employment can be arduous in the best circumstances, but for the near-record number of homeless adults bedding down in NYC shelters, the job search process is particularly challenging. Contrary to misleading stereotypes, the vast majority of homeless N ..Read More

Although the State legislative session has officially ended, Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi continues to advocate for bold solutions to alleviate the suffering of a near-record 61,277 men, women, and children sleeping in sweltering NYC shelters, thousands more w ..Read More

Although the vast majority of homeless men, women, and children in NYC sleep in shelters, the thousands of others who bed down on the streets or in the subways are a daily, visible reminder that our city is in the midst of a record homelessness crisis. This we ..Read More

With 15,328 families – including 23,000 children – sleeping in NYC shelters tonight, many New Yorkers and organizations have endeavored to understand how we arrived at such a crisis, as well as how to reverse the trend. In the past few weeks, the Family Ho ..Read More

This week, the Coalition for the Homeless and The Legal Aid Society presented testimony before the New York City Council’s Committee on General Welfare on “Oversight – From PATH to Permanency: Navigating the Shelter System as a Family with Children.” C ..Read More

Research over the past few decades has shown that providing people with a permanent home and appropriate support services can give them the stability they need to subsequently overcome other challenges such as mental illness or substance use disorders. Housing ..Read More

As the State legislative session draws to a close today, much work remains in combatting the homelessness crisis across New York. While this session brought major victories – such as the release of funds for the first 6,000 supportive housing units of Gov. C ..Read More

For the past 10 months, an NYC student group called Kids for a Better Future (KBF) has been working with the Coalition on projects to better the lives of homeless men, women and children, and raise funds for the Coalition’s programs. Each school year, the fo ..Read More