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Press Releases

• Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless announce settlement in Callahan v. Carey, preserving NYC’s Right to Shelter settlement protects the right to shelter for anyone in need. City agrees to eliminate backlog of new arrivals who are reapplying for shelter, end use of waiting rooms as shelter, March 15, 2024
• NY SANE, Coalition for the Homeless, The Legal Aid Society, Win, Housing Justice for All, Host Rallies in NYC and Albany to Save Legal Right to Shelter, December 5, 2023
• Statement from Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless in Response to the Court Directing the Parties Into Mediation, October 19, 2023
• Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless Respond to State’s Support of the City’s Request to Gut the Right to Shelter, October 18, 2023
• Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless Respond to Mayor Adams’ Ill-Conceived and Cruel Effort to Gut Right to Shelter for Single Adults, a Plan Now Supported by Gov. Hochul, October 11, 2023
• Joint Statement from Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless on Mayor Adams’ Revised Application to Gut Right to Shelter Protections, October 3, 2023
• Joint Statement from Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless on Governor Hochul’s and Deputy Mayor’s Remarks on Right to Shelter, September 21, 2023
• Joint Statement from Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless in Response to Today’s Right to Shelter Emergency Court Conference, August 4, 2023
• Joint Statement from Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless in Response to an Emergency Court Conference on Right to Shelter, August 3, 2023

Press Mentions

• The Callahan deal is not a victory, Dave Giffen and Adriene Holder, NY Daily News, March 22, 2024
• New York City to Impose Stricter Limits on Migrant Adults in Shelters Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, March 15, 2024
• NYC Narrows Re-Sheltering Rights for Recently-Arrived Immigrants Emma Whitford, City Limits, March 15, 2024
• Settlement reached over ‘Right to Shelter’ law in New York City David Novarro, ABC7 NY, March 15, 2024
• New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’ No Longer Exists for Thousands of Migrants Gwynne Hogan, The City, December 18, 2023
• Rally to Defend NYC’s Right to Shelter Emma Whitford, Adi Talwar and Jeanmarie Evelly, City Limits December 6, 2023
• Homeless advocates rally to defend right to shelter in New York City CBS News, December 5, 2023
• Lawmakers, advocates for homeless rally to defend Right to Shelter law in NYC Lauren Glassberg, ABC7 NY, December 5, 2023
• NYC is ‘out of room,’ Adams tells WINS as right-to-shelter battle enters mediation, advocates warn of ‘mass street homelessness,’ Rabia Gursoy, 1010 Wins, October 20, 2023
• Judge Orders NYC & Advocates for Homeless to Enter Arbitration, Brooklyn Eagle, October 20, 2023
• NYC continues right to shelter battle in court, Melissa Russo, NBC New York, October 19, 2023
• NYC Mayor’s Latest Bid to Suspend Adult Shelter Rights Cools in Court, Emma Whitford, CityLimits, October 19, 2023
• City and state agree to secret mediation in shelter law dispute, averting court battle, Elizabeth Kim, October 19, 2023
• NYC Agrees To Avoid ‘War Of Legal Papers’ On Migrant Shelter, Cara Salvatore, LAW360, October 19, 2023
• Legal battle over whether NY’s ‘right to shelter’ law covers migrants goes to mediation, Ben Kochman and Craig McCarthy, New York Post, October 19, 2023
• City and state to enter mediation on right-to-shelter policy with Legal Aid, Ethan Stark-Miller, AMNY, October 19, 2023
• Legal Aid blasts Hochul for supporting Adams’ attempt to roll back shelter mandate, October 18, 2023
• Battle over right-to-shelter law: Hochul backs Adams, October 18, 2023
• Lawyers, homeless advocates call out Hochul’s support for suspending right-to-shelter, October 18, 2023
• Hochul says right to shelter can’t be ‘open invitation to 8 billion people’, Tim Balk, New York Daily News, October 12, 2023
• State sides with city in court case to suspend right-to-shelter, Kelly Mena, Spectrum News NY1, October 11, 2023
• Gov. Hochul Backs Adams’ Call To Suspend ‘Right to Shelter’ During Asylum Crisis, Greg B. Smith, The City, October 11, 2023
• New York’s Right to Shelter Is Under Attack. Again. Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times, October 6, 2023
• Degrees of the decree: NYC’s approach to right to shelter case raises questions, Editorial Board, New York Daily News, October 5, 2023
• ‘This is Extreme’: Advocates Condemn Mayor’s Latest Ask to Suspend Adult Shelter Rights Emma Whitford, CityLimits, October 4, 2023
• Judge on right-to-shelter case recuses herself as Adams admin plans to modify suspension request, Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, September 26, 2023
• Judge recuses herself as NYC seeks to suspend right to shelter amid migrant crisis, Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist, September 26, 2023
• We must keep N.Y.’s right to shelter: 42 years after the agreement, the compact has to be maintained, Dave Giffen, New York Daily News, August 23, 2023
• NYC’s shelter mandate at heart of question of what to do with migrant surge, Matthew Cheyes, Newsday, August 23, 2023
• Gov. Kathy Hochul’s migrant duty: New York State must step into the migrant crisis to obey the state Constitution, Editorial Board, New York Daily News, August 13, 2023