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We have recently expanded our Advocacy Document Library to include more information regarding shelter rights and more.
With the single adult shelter population reaching record levels, the Coalition is facing a shortage of volunteer shelter monitors.
The number of homeless single adults in the New York City shelter system has drastically risen over the past year, defying usual trends and reaching a level not seen in over two decades.
City data shows that, even in the midst of the lingering economic crisis, the City is denying shelter to homeless families at a higher rate.
The New York City Council held an important hearing about the problems homeless families confront when seeking emergency shelter – and how the City wrongfully denies shelter to families in crisis.
More and more unanswered questions remain about the City’s callous Homebase experiment, in which 200 needy families have been denied prevention services for two years.
Join the Coalition for the Homeless with co-chairs Alec Baldwin, Richard Gere, and Carey Lowell on November 4th for the 16th Annual ARTWALK NY!
Public Advocate, Bill de Blasio, released a report on Friday documenting the prevalence of illegal "side deals" among participants in the Department of Homeless Services' rental subsidy program, Advantage.
The NYC Department of Homeless Services has callously cut off prevention services for 200 at-risk families as part of a “study” of the Homebase program.
New nationwide data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that there were more people living in poverty in 2009 than any other year since they started keeping track in 1959.
Governor Paterson has vetoed legislation that would have eased rent burdens for poor New Yorkers living with AIDS, many of them formerly-homeless. And the pundits who urged him to do so should shoulder some of the blame.
On Friday, September 10, 2010, Capicu Poetry, God's Funky Children, and Xmental University got together at Notice Lounge in Williamsburg Brooklyn to raise money for Project: Back to School.
Fifth-grader Olivia Oldham asks fellow students to pitch in and help homeless kids.
Mary's recent blog for the Huffington Post about the importance of participating in Project: Back to School
We are looking to collect 3,000 backpacks filled with school supplies for homeless children in need.
The National Coalition for the Homeless just released a report detailing the number of violent attacks against the homeless in 2009. The number of resulting fatalities was the highest in a decade.
Over 1,000 families have returned to homelessness after receiving Advantage.
DHS recently published a “myths v. facts” page about Advantage. Curiously enough, their “facts” ignore their own data, indicators, and measurements.
Jorge Morera, one of the Coalition's Crisis Intervention counselors, discusses the barriers he sees every day with families face in their application to shelter.
The Mayor’s flawed rental subsidy program is leading hundreds of formerly homeless families BACK into homelessness and putting thousands more at risk.