Today’s Read: Show HUD’s Budget Cuts the Door

Even with extraordinarily low unemployment, across the country far too many people are struggling to keep a roof over their heads. An estimated 7.7 million low-income families nationwide spend more than half of their incomes on rent, live in severely inadequat ..Read More

Show HUD’s Budget Cuts the Door

Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, set the stage for President Scrooge’s meanspirited budget when he suggested that the government had made things too “cozy” for poor people and said that poverty was merely a “state of mind.” ..Read More

Experts Discuss Causes of and Solutions to Record Homelessness

On April 4th, a panel of experts discussed Homelessness and Housing in New York State as part of the Warren M. Anderson Legislative Breakfast Series sponsored by the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. Shelly Nortz, the Coalition’s Deputy Executive D ..Read More

Fair Share Bills Are NOT Fair to Homeless New Yorkers

The citywide affordable housing crisis has pushed record numbers of New Yorkers into homelessness. In an effort to meet its moral and legal obligation to provide shelter for all homeless individuals and families, the City has scrambled to open more shelters to ..Read More