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How I Found Myself
First Step graduate Lakisha Smith talks about her journey.
First Step graduate Lakisha Smith talks about her journey.
The City recently announced they will end the hotel program for Sandy evacuees at the end of April -- long before affordable housing resources will made available to all of those in need.
CFH responds to reports to NYC will kick Hurricane Sandy victims out of hotels at end of April.
Coalition for the Homeless joined the NYC Council Progressive Caucus in launching an important policy platform.
Read the latest edition of Safety Net the newsletter of the Coalition for the Homeless
Our new policy brief details the continued fallout from Advantage returns and the rising costs of repeat family homelessness.
This eloquent, impassioned letter to Mayor Bloomberg was written by Tim Campbell, the Coalition’s Director of Programs.
Closing out a week of stubbornly avoiding responsibility for New York City’s record homeless shelter population, Mayor Bloomberg today launched an attack on NYC’s legal right to shelter – including fantastical claims about private jets and limos whisking imaginary homeless people off to shelters.
Refusing to take responsibility for the record-high 50,000+ homeless people in NYC shelters, Mayor Bloomberg and his officials have instead launched a series of baseless attacks on homeless advocates. Here we fact-check the attacks.
New reports confirm that low-income renters have been hit hardest by Sandy.
Yesterday the Coalition released the “State of the Homeless 2013” report, which documented how, for the first time ever, more than 50,000 homeless New Yorkers are sleeping each night in municipal shelters – a shocking 61 percent increase since Mayor Bloomberg took office.
Coalition for the Homeless released its 2013 "State of the Homeless" report today showing that for the first time the number of homeless New Yorkers sleeping in emergency shelter each night has passed 50,000 – a 61 percent increase since Mayor Bloomberg took office.