Category: Newsletter Article

By Lindsey Davis Barbara and her 18-month-old daughter now have a safe place to sleep, but it wasn’t easy. As a child she was removed from her abusive mother and put in foster care. When she turned 18, she found herself pregnant and homeless. With nowher ..Read More

By Sarah Murphy Imagine you live in one small room with your five children. Just to get home you have to pass through airport-like security. Men rifle through your bags and your phone gets confiscated because it has a camera in it. You hike up four flights of ..Read More

By Rachel Edelman Mark your calendars for the 17th annual ARTWALK NY benefit, which will take place on Tuesday, November 15th at Skylight Studio in NYC. The annual event, co-chaired by Alec Baldwin, Richard Gere and Carey Lowell, will feature works from more t ..Read More

To the People of the City of New York, We, the residents of Nelson Avenue Family Residence, come to you as one. We come to you for help on a number of issues. But first and fore most our main issue is that we have been informed that there are no longer any pro ..Read More

By Maria Fregoso More than 350 guests joined us at the 17th Annual Women Mean Business Luncheon at The Pierre Hotel on April 12, 2011. The luncheon was emceed by comedian and former social worker, Christine O’Leary, whose poignant and heartwarming anecdo ..Read More

By Giselle Routhier While Tammy’s children enrolled in the Coalition’s Bound for Success after-school program, we learned that this was her family’s second time through the shelter system. Tammy first became homeless in early 2008, after leav ..Read More

By Patrick Markee In April, Coalition for the Homeless released its annual “State of the Homeless” report, documenting all-time record homelessness in New York City. The report also analyzed new evidence that the Bloomberg administration’s fa ..Read More

By Sarah Murphy Brianna Karp became homeless in 2009 after losing her job to the recession and later being kicked out of her childhood home. At a friend’s suggestion, she began a blog, “The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness,” which has since ..Read More

Since mass homelessness emerged 30 years ago, every New York City mayor has had some plan to house homeless families – until now. Mayor Bloomberg announced his new budget for Fiscal Year 2012, and it contains ZERO funding to move homeless families out of ..Read More