The City’s Missing 2,000 Homeless People

Currently there are more than 39,000 homeless men, women, and children sleeping each night in New York City municipal shelters, an all-time record.  And during the past year the number of homeless families and single adults in shelters increased significantly ..Read More

NYC’s most vulnerable left out in the cold

As recently reported in Gay City News, next month the City’s largest drop-in center for street homeless adults–the Open Door–will be closing. This follows a year-long reconfiguration of the drop-in system, which used to consist of eleven cit ..Read More

Mayor’s Management Report shows an increase in homelessness

As reported by Cindy Rodriguez of WNYC last Friday, the preliminary release of the 2010 Mayor’s Management Report confirms what we have been seeing over the past many months–homelessness has increased dramatically. The report covers the progress o ..Read More

Rosa’s Story: Making a Difference for Homeless Students

Thanks to the actions of Coalition supporters, New York State’s schools chief has promised to help Rosa Bracero and other homeless students — but more reforms are still needed. Late last week, Mary Brosnahan, the Coalition’s executive directo ..Read More

Update: Helping Rosa and Other Homeless Students

Our campaign to help Rosa Bracero and thousands of other homeless students has won national attention — and generated hundreds of letters to Mayor Bloomberg urging him to change misguided rules that force homeless kids to miss school and exams. As we not ..Read More

Rosa Deserves to Graduate

Rosa Bracero is a 17 year-old high school senior at Brooklyn’s High School for Civil Rights. As the Daily News reported, she finished all of her credits to graduate last week – a semester early – and was on track to attend Lincoln Technical ..Read More

NY Bureaucrats Block Homeless Teen’s High School Graduation

Rosa Bracero, a homeless high school student, was prevented from taking her graduation exams by New York City and State bureaucrats. Yesterday’s New York Daily News featured a remarkable article by reporter Meredith Kolodner, telling the story of Ros ..Read More