As mayoral candidates develop their platforms for the upcoming election, experts are urging all candidates to make ending homelessness a central campaign issue and to adopt the plan’s recommendations.


Resources for New Arrivals
Information and support for asylum seekers or other immigrants who arrived in NYC after March 15, 2022

Our Programs

Food
We bring hot nutritious meals to those living rough on the streets of the city, every night of the year.

Crisis Services
We provide lifesaving services to more than 11,000 homeless and at-risk individuals and families per year.

Housing
We give homeless families and single adults the dignity and stability of a home of their own.

Job Training
We offer homeless and low-income women the training and support they need to find living-wage jobs.

Youth Programs
We give homeless kids the help and support they need to keep up with the peers at school.

Advocacy
We advance long-term solutions to the crisis of homelessness and defend the rights of homeless people.
I need help finding shelter or meeting other critical needs.
Crisis Intervention Hotline:
1-888-358-2384

The Latest
Updates from the Coalition for the Homeless. To see our recent statements, visit our Press Room.


The City Council enacted a bill Thursday that aimed to double the number of public restrooms in the city by 2035…

The City Council is voting Thursday on legislation that would require one public restroom for every 2,000 residents by the year 2035…

Marisol Casilla, First Step graduate from class 119, sharing her journey to career success across 11 years, with her sisterhood of First Steppers by her side along the way.

New York is in the midst of both a mental health crisis and homelessness crisis, which is playing out in a very public fashion — on the streets, subways, and other public spaces. But when it comes to proposing a solution to helping the thousands…

Coalition for the Homeless, VOCAL-NY, Community Service Society and other nonprofit groups have released a blueprint on how the next mayor can solve homelessness. They cite the pressing affordability crisis, the dismally low apartment vacancy rates and surging levels of food insecurity, as well as a 12% increase in the number of non-asylum-seekers in shelters last year.


David Giffen, executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, joined anchor Rocco Vertuccio on “Weekends on 1” Saturday to discuss their recommendations.

Mayor Eric Adams’ Department of Homeless Services is trying out new rules that would create new grounds for kicking residents out of city shelters, THE CITY has learned…

The Coalition for the Homeless announces the appointment of Digital Creator, Host, Actor, and Comedian Taryn Delanie Smith as its first ever Ambassador. With a combined social media following of more than 2.7 million, Smith brings her authentic voice and personal experience to help reframe the conversation around homelessness in New York City.