Setting the Record Straight: Mayor de Blasio’s Housing Plan Can and Should Do More for the Homeless Posted on December 11, 2018 by Giselle Routhier in Gotham Gazette Mayor de Blasio has been under constant fire for offering homeless New Yorkers access to just 5 percent of the units created and preserved by his 12-year, 300,000-unit affordable housing plan, even as homelessness has reached a new all-time record high. He has ..Read More
Toy Drive Brightens the Holidays for Homeless Children Posted on December 8, 2018 by Roger Clark in NY1 Staff at the Coalition for the Homeless headquarters are busy sorting donated toys. Toys that are destined for children living in homeless shelters around the city. Nearly 64,000 New Yorkers are in shelters right now, 23,000 are kids. “All of those famil ..Read More
Homeless Coalition Honors Welcoming Neighbors Posted on December 9, 2018 by Michael Hinman in The Riverdale Press The leaders behind Welcoming Neighbors Northwest Bronx will tell you that doing something special for those looking to get back on their feet is all the thanks they need. At the same time, however, they’re not going to say no to recognition, like the honor r ..Read More
Today’s Read: City Hall Refuses to Reveal Data on Actual Number of Homeless Placed in City-Funded Housing Posted on December 7, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone Despite a record 63,559 people sleeping in NYC shelters each night and thousands more bedding down on the streets, Mayor de Blasio has stubbornly defended his decision to allocate a mere 5 percent of his 300,000-unit affordable housing plan to homeless New Yor ..Read More
Program Wins Award for Setting Example in Community Posted on December 5, 2018 by Eric Steltzer in News12 A Bronx program is empowering children who live in a shelter to succeed and become better people. Organizers call Broadway Family Plaza Transitional Housing a means to get families ready for a permanent home. A program created by Working Families called “ ..Read More
City Hall Refuses to Reveal Data on Actual Number of Homeless Placed in City-Funded Housing: Lawsuit Posted on December 6, 2018 by Greg B. Smith in New York Daily News City Hall is refusing to come clean about the number of homeless they’ve actually moved out of shelters and into city-financed permanent housing, a homeless support group is charging. The Coalition for the Homeless filed a lawsuit Friday after the agencies M ..Read More
De Blasio to Convert Nearly 500 NYC ‘Cluster Site’ Homeless Apartments to Affordable Housing Posted on December 4, 2018 by Michael Gartland in New York Daily News With the exploding number of homeless still hovering at record levels, Mayor de Blasio will announce Tuesday a nearly-done deal to convert 468 shelter apartments into permanent, affordable apartments for the homeless. Known as “cluster-site” apartments, th ..Read More
Today’s Listen: The City’s Homelessness Crisis and the Mayor’s Housing Plan Posted on November 30, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone Despite the fact that homelessness continues to hover at record levels – with 63,000 New Yorkers, including 23,000 children, in shelters each night – Mayor de Blasio’s Housing New York 2.0 plan sets aside a mere 5 percent of its 300,000 units for homeles ..Read More
ARTWALK NY Honors Marina Adams, Stanley Whitney, and Suzanne Siano Posted on November 30, 2018 On November 28, more than 750 friends and supporters of the Coalition for the Homeless filled Spring Studios in TriBeCa for the 24th annual ARTWALK NY charity auction and gala. The event raised roughly $850,000 to support the Coalition’s programs that help m ..Read More
