Category: CFTH Blog

  Following a recent court decision, the City announced its plan to stop payment for 300 victims of Hurricane Sandy still living in hotels, starting tomorrow. On Wednesday, the Coalition for the Homeless, with the Legal Aid Society, New York Communities ..Read More

The Bloomberg administration is trying yet again to evict hundreds of vulnerable Hurricane Sandy survivors from hotels, despite the City’s repeated failure to provide genuine help with housing. In the spring the City first attempted to evict hundreds of peop ..Read More

Last Thursday the House voted in favor of H.R. 3102, the Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act of 2013, a bill that, amongst other things, will decrease the budget for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stam ..Read More

Republican NYC mayoral candidate Joe Lhota proposed a dangerous plan to change the New York State Constitution in order to deny shelter to many homeless people. During a tele-town hall with supporters late last week, Lhota said he would seek to modify the New ..Read More

New Census Bureau data shows that, in 2012, the number of New Yorkers living in poverty rose. And the gap between rich and poor New Yorkers has continued to widen. The New York Times’ Sam Roberts reviewed the newly-released Census data. His article today  ..Read More

The front page of today’s New York Times has a powerful article about the rising number of working New Yorkers who are homeless – the result of NYC’s worsening affordability crisis and failed Bloomberg policies. The New York Times article by Mireya N ..Read More

We are about to officially reach the end of summer. Parents all over the country are rushing to fill the ever-growing list of school supplies as their kids search for the perfect backpack, binder and matching notebooks. And so here at the Coalition, we’re in ..Read More

  Saturday, August 17th, the Coalition for the Homeless partnered with Red Frog Events and Morton Williams Supermarket to host a donation site for the Coalition’s food pantry as part of the Great Urban Race, a city-wide scavenger hunt. A huge thank ..Read More

‘Around the World’ week was a fun way to introduce our BFS campers to the histories and cultures from places both in and outside of New York City. From Brazil, to Africa, through Egypt and into Asia, and even into old New York, the boys and girls i ..Read More