The New Migrant Shelter Hurdle: Waiting for the City to Call No. 14,861 Posted on January 24, 2024 by Andy Newman and Wesley Parnell in New York Times New York City is required to give a bed to anyone who asks. But as the city reaches a new phase in its homelessness crisis, officials are telling people they have to wait. ..Read More
Dept. of Homeless Services kicking off annual HOPE outreach program Posted on January 23, 2024 by News 12 Staff and Adolfo Carrion in News 12 The Bronx The city’s Department of Homeless Services is launching its annual HOPE survey in an effort to get a pulse on the housing status of New Yorkers citywide. ..Read More
NYC decision to move migrants from tent shelter to a school amid storm draws fire Posted on January 10, 2024 by Daniella Silva, Andy Weir and Antonia Hylton in NBC News ..Read More
New York City Hid Realities of Homelessness Crisis, Report Finds Posted on January 9, 2024 by Emma G. Fitzsimmons in The New York Times ..Read More
Nearly 80% of New Yorkers back right to shelter, poll finds Posted on January 9, 2024 by Elizabeth Kim in Gothamist ..Read More
Leaders, Advocates Unite Against Asylum Shelter Evictions Before Adams Displaces Families Posted on January 8, 2024 by Harlem World in Harlem World ..Read More
New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’ No Longer Exists for Thousands of Migrants Posted on December 18, 2023 by Gwynne Hogan in The City After 42 years, New York City’s “right to shelter,” which was supposed to guarantee a bed to anyone who sought one the same day, has functionally ended... ..Read More
In New York and Massachusetts, Right to Shelter Is Under Attack Posted on December 14, 2023 by Isaiah Thompson in Nonprofit Quarterly Not long ago, advocates for those experiencing homelessness could point to two places in the United States that, for decades, have served as beacons of a more progressive and humane approach to homelessness: New York City and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ..Read More
Winter weather arrives as NYC migrant crisis worsens: ‘It’s going to get ugly’ Posted on December 10, 2023 by Tim Balk in NY Daily News In a defining image of New York’s migrant crisis, scores of asylum seekers slept on the pavement outside the migrant processing center at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown last summer. When the temperatures plunge this winter, any similar breakdowns could prove ..Read More