The Appellate Court ordered Advantage rent be paid until the appeal is decided; arguments won't be heard until September.
Mayor Bloomberg and City officials make the absurd claim that the so-called “generosity” of the flawed Advantage program was attracting families to municipal shelters – and unbelievably, they are using this long-discredited myth to justify eliminating ALL housing assistance for NYC homeless families.
Students at PS 264 participated in Penny Harvest and raised $100 to support the Coalition's programs.
Last Thursday, the Coalition joined in a peaceful march on Wall Street that drew over 20,000 service providers, union members, and community activists to protest budget cuts to New York City's most vulnerable.
Today, Mayor Bloomberg proposed his final budget for New York City and it includes massive cuts to the most vulnerable New Yorkers. On May 12, tens of thousands of New Yorkers will fight back with a march and teach-in on Wall Street. Join us!
As Mother's Day approaches, please consider honoring your mother with a gift to the Coalition.
On May 2, 2011, the Court said it would not order the City to pay June rent for Advantage tenants. We do not know whether the Court will later order the City to pay rent for June and later months.
As the City unveils a sparkling new intake center for homeless families, alarming new data show that last year the Bloomberg administration turned away a record number of families at the shelter door.
In what has become an annual ritual, Bloomberg administration officials trumpeted the flawed results of their flawed street homelessness survey to claim that the number of unsheltered homeless people has declined -- all the time ignoring indisputable City data showing all-time record NYC homelessness.
Homelessness in New York city has reached record levels and it's way past time for the City to implement real solutions. Help us collect 500 letters asking the Mayor to immediately begin using 1 in 3 federal housing resources for homeless families.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released new data confirming that homelessness worsened significantly between 2009 and 2010 in New York City and throughout the rest of the state.
The City will pay May's rent for current Advantage tenants and a final decision will be made by the court on May 2nd.
Faced with evidence of record NYC homelessness, Bloomberg administration officials could acknowledge the problem and work on solutions. Or they could resort to denial and attacks on the messenger. Which do you think they’ve chosen?
Coalition for the Homeless released its annual “State of the Homeless” report today, documenting how NYC homelessness reached all-time record levels during the past year – and outlining a plan to reduce the homeless population.
A court order has required the City to pay April's rent to current Advantage tenants.
Mayor Bloomberg is playing politics with the lives of homeless children and families, issuing irresponsible threats in order to defend a failed program that has led to record homelessness. And these threats have just gotten MUCH more dangerous.
Information on the Advantage program and your rights as a tenant, prepared by the Coalition and the Legal Aid Society.
In yet another example of fear-mongering and misleading the public, the Bloomberg administration threatened today to cut off rent subsidies for 15,000 formerly-homeless families – and the Coalition vowed to stop this unlawful action.
As Mayor Bloomberg and City officials continue their irresponsible fear-mongering in defense of the failed Advantage program, they are refusing to talk about a better, cheaper alternative: Federal housing programs.
We often report on the sad circumstances facing homeless kids and their families, but this is one story we'd like to share that highlights the inspiring things young people are doing today to help the less fortunate.