Category: CFTH Blog

On December 15, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City would be reevaluating the agencies that deliver services to homeless New Yorkers in an effort to better serve men, women and children in need. He stated that Department of Homeless Services Commissio ..Read More

Supportive housing rescues our most vulnerable neighbors from the trauma of homelessness and gives them the ongoing help they need to transform their lives. Since the first City-State supportive housing agreement in 1990, thousands of New Yorkers struggling wi ..Read More

As the tragedy of mass homelessness persists in our city, the Coalition continues to urge elected officials to adopt the proven housing-based solutions that will end the crisis once and for all. On Wednesday, the Coalition and The Legal Aid Society presented t ..Read More

With all of the recent attention on the upsurge in street homelessness in NYC, it’s easy to forget that a humane and cost-effective solution exists: supportive housing. Twenty-five years ago, the City and State signed the first NY/NY agreement to jointly fun ..Read More

This week, Mayor de Blasio made history by announcing a plan to create 15,000 units of supportive housing in New York City over the next 15 years. This is the largest commitment to supportive housing made by any mayor, and its importance cannot be overstated. ..Read More

Homelessness is an issue that affects everyone. In the process of making and promoting their new movie, Time Out of Mind, actor Richard Gere and director Oren Moverman were shocked at how many people had stories to share about being homeless or on the brink of ..Read More

Yesterday’s New York Times gave A1 placement to Nikita Stewart’s extensive examination of Mayor de Blasio’s efforts to end homelessness. Stewart’s first sentence succinctly summed up the gist: “By one key measure after another, homelessness in New Yo ..Read More

As the city’s housing affordability crisis worsens and gentrification sweeps into more neighborhoods, a growing number of New Yorkers are facing eviction – and homelessness. An estimated 90 percent of these tenants have to navigate the intimidating maze of ..Read More

The New York Times’ recent profile of the Commissioner of the Human Resources Administration – and longtime homeless advocate – Steve Banks and his crusade to end homelessness in NYC. Banks, the former Attorney-in-Chief of the Legal Aid Society, spent ..Read More