Category: CFTH Blog

As recently reported in Gay City News, next month the City’s largest drop-in center for street homeless adults–the Open Door–will be closing. This follows a year-long reconfiguration of the drop-in system, which used to consist of eleven cit ..Read More

As reported by Cindy Rodriguez of WNYC last Friday, the preliminary release of the 2010 Mayor’s Management Report confirms what we have been seeing over the past many months–homelessness has increased dramatically. The report covers the progress o ..Read More

Thanks to the actions of Coalition supporters, New York State’s schools chief has promised to help Rosa Bracero and other homeless students — but more reforms are still needed. Late last week, Mary Brosnahan, the Coalition’s executive directo ..Read More

Our campaign to help Rosa Bracero and thousands of other homeless students has won national attention — and generated hundreds of letters to Mayor Bloomberg urging him to change misguided rules that force homeless kids to miss school and exams. As we not ..Read More

Rosa Bracero is a 17 year-old high school senior at Brooklyn’s High School for Civil Rights. As the Daily News reported, she finished all of her credits to graduate last week – a semester early – and was on track to attend Lincoln Technical ..Read More

Rosa Bracero, a homeless high school student, was prevented from taking her graduation exams by New York City and State bureaucrats. Yesterday’s New York Daily News featured a remarkable article by reporter Meredith Kolodner, telling the story of Ros ..Read More

In continuation of yesterday’s blog and stories in the Daily News, I’d like to highlight another serious flaw of the Work Advantage program–it lasts for just two years. The first 1000 families were put on the subsidy around the fall of 200 ..Read More

An alarming news report documents the growing problems with Mayor Bloomberg’s flawed “Work Advantage” program — including children and families placed into hazardous homes. The New York Daily News has, over the past two days, publishe ..Read More

It’s been a long while since right-wing extremist Heather MacDonald has shared her mean-spirited views about homelessness with New York City’s tabloid newspaper readers.  And honestly, we can’t say we’ve missed her. But today she took ..Read More