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Read recent news articles about homelessness and related issues.

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• Safety Net, Winter 2005 (pdf)
  

• Safety Net, Fall 2004 (pdf)
  

• For Some Homeless Couples, Shelter Is an Office Floor Provided by the City
  New York Times
  January 8, 2005

• NYC homeless rally for renewal of state-city housing
  Associated Press
  November 18, 2004

• Tenth Annual ARTWALK NY
  Artdaily
  November 17 2004

• New York Announces New System to Process Families Seeking Shelter
  New York Times
  November 17, 2004

• Kindness that comes under fire
  Newsday
  November 17, 2004

• Deal gives homeless kids a timely ride to school
  Newsday
  October 29, 2004

• City housing proposal aims at working poor
  New York Daily News
  October 20, 2004

• City shifts policy on homeless
  Newsday
  October 20, 2004

• Homeless Families Blocked From Seeking U.S. Housing Aid
  New York Times
  October 20, 2004

• U.S. Set to Alter Rules for Banks Lending to Poor
  New York Times
  October 20, 2004

• City Proposes Overhaul Of Housing Program For Homeless New Yorkers (video)
  New York 1
  October 19, 2004

• Teenager arrested after homeless man is taunted, attacked
  Albany Times Union
  Octover 19, 2004

• Homeless in the Hamptons
  New York Times
  October 17, 2004

• Veterans in Harlem Home Cite Violence and Vermin
  New York Times
  October 17, 2004

• The War on Affordable Housing
  New York Times
  October 16, 2004

• Lawsuit Seeking Access to Schooling for Homeless Children Moves Forward NLCHP
  October 15, 2004

• A Persistent Problem (audio)
  The Brian Lehrer Show
  September 24, 2004

• New policy is blamed for problems at shelters
  The Villager
  September 22, 2004

• Shelters hit list drawn up
  New York Daily News
  June 14, 2004

News Archive

2004

• Safety Net, Summer 2004 (pdf)
  

• Are homeless pregnant women being neglected? (video)
  CBS 2
  May 4, 2004

• Home From Iraq, and Without a Home
  New York Times
  April 24, 2004

• FEC Rule Would Harm Charities (pdf)
  Coalition for the Homeless
  April 2, 2004

• Fross Zelnick Partner Janet L. Hoffman to Be Honored by the Coalition for the Homeless
  Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.
  March 26, 2004

• Children in Shelters Hit Hard by Asthma
  New York Times
  March 2, 2004

• Mayor Gets Low Marks For His Handling Of Homelessness (video)
  New York 1
  February 28, 2004

• Coalition for the Homeless Issues State of the Homeless Report Card
  Safety Net Online
  February 27, 2004

• Bloomberg Report Card: C-plus, D-minus on Homeless
  Associated Press
  February 27, 2004

• Safety Net, Winter 2004(pdf)
  

• Body Count: Council Bill Seeks Homeless Death Data
  City Limits
  February 23, 2004

• Freezing temperatures kill nearly 600 in South Asia
  Reuters
  January 6, 2004

October, 2004

• Group to Invest $5 Million in Low-Cost City Housing
  New York Times
  October 14, 2004

• MTA Police Officer Charged with Beating Homeless Man (video)
  New York 1
  October 13, 2004

• Officer Charged in Beating of Homeless Man Outside Penn Station
  New York Times
  October 13, 2004

• Advocates Rally Homeless to Get Out the Vote
  Los Angeles Times
  October 11, 2004

• Is Two Years Too Little? Rent Help Ends Abruptly
  City Limits
  October 11, 2004

• New Federal Rules Gather Data About Battered Women
  New York Times
  October 8, 2004

• Rossi looked to N.Y. for regulation reform plan
  Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
  October 8, 2004

May, 2004

• New rules for assisted living
  Newsday
  May 29, 2004

• War Veteran Finds Home Has a Heart
  New York Times
  May 29, 2004

• City Diverted $600 Million Set Aside for Low-Cost Housing
  New York Times
  May 27, 2004

• Say it's a Battery Park pity
  New York Daily News
  May 27, 2004

• TEEN ADOPTION'S HARD SELL
  City Limits
  June, 2004

• Working...And Poor
  Business Week
  May 31, 2004

• Withholding Rent While On Welfare
  Gotham Gazette
  May, 2004

• Advocates Dispute City's Estimate Of Homeless Population (video)
  New York 1
  May 24, 2004

• Former HUD chief, politicians form coalition to oppose federal housing policy
  Associated Press
  May 24, 2004

• Homeless Education (audio)
  Marketplace
  May 24, 2004

• Bruno blocking Senate vote on minimum wage
  New York Daily News
  May 23, 2004

• For a Struggling Westchester Family, Home Is a Tenuous Concept
  New York Times
  May 23, 2004

• Haunted by heartbreak they seek Timothys Law
  New York Teacher
  May 19, 2004

• HOMELESSNESS BUDGET: PREVENTION OR PR?
  City Limits
  May 18, 2004

• Times don't have to be this hard
  Newsday
  May 16, 2004

• The Ballad of Sonny Payne
  New York Times
  May 16, 2004

• Steady Focus, Evolving Vision
  New York Times
  May 16, 2004

• State looks at three LI facilities
  Newsday
  May 13, 2004

• AARP urges state oversight at centers
  Newsday
  May 13, 2004

• Voting Reform Takes a Step Back
  WXXI
  May 12, 2004

• Back To The Fore?
  Gotham Gazette
  May, 2004

• City fights for Section 8
  New York Daily News
  May 12, 2004

• Fannie Mae Foundation Names Bill Faith Johnson Community Fellow
  PRNewswire
  May 12, 2004

• The struggle to pay rent is about to get harder
  Christian Science Monitor
  May 12, 2004

• Senate introduces own mental health parity bill
  Newsday
  May 11, 2004

• Board Proposes Rent Increases of Up to 7.5% for Two Years
  New York Times
  May 11, 2004

• In Albany, a First Agreement on Election System Overhaul
  New York Times
  May 11, 2004

• LANDLORDS CRY FOUL OVER NEW HOUSING BILL City Limits May 10, 2004

• Women Who Leave Welfare Find Few Day Care Options
  New York Times
  May 10, 2004

• Killing Off Housing for the Poor
  New York Times
  May 10, 2004

• Together with her daughter
  Newsday
  May 9, 2004

• Pat Tillman's death, Nicole Goodwin's life
  Working For Change
  May 7, 2004

• Are homeless pregnant women being neglected? (video)
  CBS 2
  May 4, 2004

• 4-Hour Trek Across New York for 4 Hours of Work, and $28
  New York Times
  May 6, 2004

• Timothy's Law Vigil (video)
  Fox 23
  May 4, 2004

• Vigil for Timothy's Law (video)
  News 9
  May 4, 2004

• A father's vigil
  The Journal News
  May 5, 2004

• Housing Subsidies for the Poor Threatened by Cuts in U.S. Aid
  New York Times
  May 4, 2004

• Welfare tally working its way back up
  New York Daily News
  May 4, 2004

• Seeking Better Wages for Difficult Work
  New York Times
  May 3, 2004

• With Drugs in Open, Elderly Live Behind Locks
  New York Times
  May 2, 2004

• Transforming City's Housing: Act 2
  New York Times
  May 2, 2004

• A Fish Market Is Sold, and Workers Worry
  New York Times
  May 2, 2004

• Dinkin says it is time to give back
  Greenwood Commonwealth
  May 2, 2004

April, 2004

• Child Care For Welfare Recipients
  Gotham Gazette
  April, 2004

• Lawmakers Meet to Reform Voting Laws
  WXXI
  April 28, 2004

• More deaths, illness predicted as homeless find shelters full
  The Patriot Ledger
  April 28, 2004

• Homeless on Campus
  The Progressive
  July, 2004

• Overcoming dire Straits
  New York Daily News
  April 27, 2004

• Yes, Some Students Live in the Library (But Not Like This)
  New York Times
  April 27, 2004

• 650 eviction notices sent to Section 8 tenants
  Boston Globe
  April 27, 2004

• Home From Iraq, and Without a Home
  New York Times
  April 24, 2004

• Hundreds Of Public Housing Residents Being Relocated
  New York 1
  April 22, 2004

• No Privacy for the Poor, Homeless
  Wired.com
  April 22, 2004

• Homeless Face Increasing ID Hurdles Post 9/11
  National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
  April 20, 2004

• A Subway Philosopher Who Was Homeless but Not Friendless
  New York Times
  April 20, 2004

• Searching for a place called home
  Albany Times Union
  April 18, 2004

• Professional, degreed, and homeless
  Newsday
  April 17, 2004

• Pols slam Mike on service rap
  Daily News
  April 17, 2004

• Pols, tenants rally against law
  Newsday
  April 16, 2004

• Decision on Finance Rules Is Called Unlikely by May
  New York Times
  April 16, 2004

• Survey Shows Slight Decline in Homeless on the Streets
  New York Times
  April 16, 2004

• In Public Housing, It's Work, Volunteer or Leave
  New York Times
  April 15, 2004

• Remembering AIDS Activist Keith Cylar (audio)
  NPR Morning Edition
  April 14, 2004

• Day laborers on the outside
  Newsday
  April 14, 2004

• Reform Groups Urge Voting Law Compliance
  WXXI
  April 14, 2004

• Keith Cylar, 45, AIDS activist co-founded Housing Works
  The Villager
  April, 2004

• RE-LEASING SEC. 8 TENANTS: OWNERS REJECT VOUCHERS
  City Limits
  April 12, 2004

• A year later, homeless soccer team still kicking
  New York Daily News
  April 11, 2004

• He lives on in memory
  Newsday
  April 8, 2004

• Affordable Housing in 2004
  Gotham Gazette
  April 5, 2004

• FEC Rule Would Harm Charities (pdf)
  Coalition for the Homeless
  April 2, 2004

• Senate, Torn by Minimum Wage, Shelves Major Welfare Bill
  New York Times
  April 2, 2004

• State GOP kills wage hike bill
  New York Daily News
  April 2, 2004

• Opponents play offense
  Newsday
  April 1, 2004

• 3 arrested in shelter beating
  Newsday
  April 1, 2004

• Governors Ask for Extension of Welfare Law
  New York Times
  April 1, 2004

• Renewed drive to get the homeless to vote
  The Christian Science Monitor
  April 1, 2004

March, 2004

• Speaker's not Jake with Battery $$ raid
  New York Daily News
  March 31, 2004

• Defying Bush, Senate Increases Child Care Funds for the Poor
  New York Times
  March 31, 2004

• Battery Park City and Affordable Housing: 35 Years of Broken Promises
  Housing First!
  March 30, 2004

• DHS SENDS S.O.S. TO NONPROFITS
  City Limits
  March 29, 2004

• RENT WARS: MITCHELL-LAMA TENANTS FACE NEW HURDLE
  City Limits
  March 29, 2004

• Adult Home May Close
  Newsday
  March 26, 2004

• Homeless Children and Asthma
  Gotham Gazette
  March, 2004

• Aging Out: From Foster Care to Homeless Shelters? (pdf)
  Independent Budget Office of the City of New York
  March 24, 2004

• Battery Pk. funds shifting to Javits
  New York Daily News
  March 25, 2004

• BLUES WALLOP POOREST NYERS WHERE THEY LIVE
  New York Post
  March 24, 2004

• Agencies Say Hunger on Rise Outside Cities Across Region
  New York Times
  March 23, 2004

• City Calls Its System of Aiding Homeless Too Broken to Fix
  New York Times
  March 23, 2004

• New York City: Mayor opposes fed housing subsidy cuts
  New York Daily News
  March 22, 2004

• NY EFFECTS OF CUTS IN FEDERAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE (pdf)
  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  March 17, 2004

• Exposure to the Homeless Increases Sympathetic Public Attitudes
  Newswise
  March 22, 2004

• HOW WILL VOUCHER CUTS AFFECT NYC?
  City Limits
  March 22, 2004

• PSYCHIATRIC WARDS
  City Limits
  April 2004

• The bare minimum
  New York Daily News
  March 21, 2004

• The Missing Homeless
  San Francisco Chronicle
  March 21, 2004

• Jump in TB Cases
  Newsday
  March 20, 2004

• In New York City, fewer find they can make it
  Washington Post
  March 14, 2004

• Fannie Mae to Help Boost the Creation of Permanent Supportive Housing for the Chronically Homeless
  Fannie Mae
  March 11, 2004

• Get 'em health care
  Newsday
  March 12, 2004

• Living in Ithaca
  Cornell Daily Sun
  March 12, 2004

• Silver: Pataki should deal or get out of way in budget talks
  Associated Press
  March 10, 2004

• Ashcroft Weighs Granting of Asylum to Abused Women
  New York Times
  March 11, 2004

• New plan for Section 8
  Newsday
  March 11, 2004

• New voters will need ID
  New York Daily News
  March 9, 2004

• Egan pressing wage hike
  New York Daily News
  March 9, 2004

• Deal Would Limit Increases in Rent at a TriBeCa Complex
  New York Times
  March 9, 2004

• AFL-CIO President Says Bush AWOL on Jobs
  Associated Press
  March 9, 2004

• After Mitchell-Lama
  Gotham Gazette
  March, 2004

• Community Voice Mail Wins Washington Software Association's Outstanding Contribution to the Community Award
  Businesswire
  March 4, 2004

• Penn prof talks housing, poverty
  Yale Daily News
  March 4, 2004

• Community Voice Mail Wins Washington Software Association's Outstanding Contribution to the Community Award
  Businesswire
  March 4, 2004

• 100 GUINEA-PIG KIDS
  New York Post
  March 2, 2004

• Children in Shelters Hit Hard by Asthma
  New York Times March 2, 2004

• Take Action to Save Benefits
  Housing Works
  March 1, 2004

• HIV-BABY PROBE
  New York Post
  March 1, 2004

• At Modernized Welfare Center, Some Things Are Hard to Fix
  New York Times
  March 1, 2004

• Pataki plan cuts welfare benefits
  The Journal News
  March 1, 2004

• Assembly votes to raise minimum wage
  Associated Press
  March 1, 2004

• For Wage Law, Mixed Prospects in the Legislature
  New York Times
  March 1, 2004

• I Survived the Box
  New York City Voices
  March 2004

February, 2004

• AIDS TOTS USED AS GUINEA PIGS
  New York Post
  February 29, 2004

• Pols wage war over minimum pay
  New York Daily News
  February 29, 2004

• Mayor Gets Low Marks For His Handling Of Homelessness (video)
  New York 1
  February 28, 2004

• Nearly Half of Black Men Found Jobless
  New York Times
  February 28, 2004

• HHAP RFP Released
  OTDA
  February 26, 2004

• Bush Welfare Agenda - Married to a Myth
  Christian Science Monitor
  February 25, 2004

• A Tax Shelter For The Working Poor
  Gotham Gazette
  February, 2004

• Famous, Still Homeless
  City Limits
  February 2004

• Ease access to food stamps for the hungry
  New York Daily News
  February 25, 2004

• Minimum wage gains in state Legislature
  New York Daily News
  February 25, 2004

• Volunteers Take Survey Of City's Homeless Population (video)
  New York 1
  February 24, 2004

• State wants to cut welfare rolls
  Democrat & Chronicle
  February 22, 2004

• Homelessness Census Going Outside Manhattan
  New York Times
  February 21, 2004

• Federal Class Action Suit Seeks Access to Schooling for Homeless Children
  Goodwin Procter LLP News Release
  February 20, 2004

• Bush Housing Plan Stirs Anxiety Over New Yorks Share of Aid
  New York Times
  February 20, 2004

• Survey finds homeless not getting assistance
  Democrat & Chronicle
  February 20, 2004

• County homelessness spikes
  The Ithaca Joutnal
  February 19, 2004

• No stamp of approval
  New York Daily News
  February 17, 2004

• Eviction Threat Can Loom for Independent Elderly
  New York Times
  February 15, 2004

• Misery at minimum wage
  New York Daily News
  February 15, 2004

• Council urges city to track number of homeless deaths
  Staten Island Advance
  Friday, February 13, 2004

• Midnight Run gives hope to homeless
  The Journal News
  February 13, 2004

• Pols Press For Homeless Registry
  Newsday
  February 12, 2004

• Pols join fight to boost wage
  New York Daily News
  February 10, 2004

• NONPROFITS GAGGED BY FEC RULING
  City Limits
  February 9, 2004

• Commission delays ruling on soft money
  The Seattle Times
  February 06, 2004

• My week living on the minimum wage
  New York Daily News
  February 8, 2004

• Over Veto, Council Passes Tougher Law on Lead Paint
  New York Times
  February 5, 2004

• Homeless Aid Axed
  City Limits
  February 2, 2004

• Homeless die in frigid weather
  WSWS
  February 2, 2004

• Say budget plan gyps homeless
  New York Daily News
  February 2, 2004

• Homeless in the cold night
  Buffalo News
  February 1, 2004

January, 2004

• New Study Documents Evictions Scourge
  New Standard News
  January 30, 2004

• What They Left Behind by Jennifer Gonnerman
  Village Voice
  January 28, 2004

• The Permanent Emergency For Homeless Families
  Gotham Gazette
  January 26, 2004

• State welfare officials look to end rent supplements
  City Limits
  January 2004

• SC to come out with law on right to shelter
  The Times of India
  January 27, 2004

• SCAA Releases Toolkit for Working Families (pdf)
  SCAA
  January 24, 2004

• For Homeless, No Bed of Roses
  Newsday
  January 22,2004

• HOMELESS GET $10M FROM CITY
  New York Post
  January 22, 2004

• City Settling With Homeless Families Who Slept On Floor (video)
  New York 1
  January 22, 2004

• Want Children Back? Get a Bigger Apartment
  New York Times
  January 20, 2004

• A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class
  New York Times Magazine
  January 18, 2004

• Pataki Budget Reducing Aid to Disabled
  New York Times
  January 19, 2004

• This is My Coldest Night
  Newsday
  January 18, 2004

• Helping Homeless Off The Street
  Newsday
  January 18, 2004

• At Least 2 Are Dead as Region Endures Cold
  New York Times
  January 17, 2004

• Officers Reaching Out on the Coldest Nights
  New York Times
  January 16, 2004

• Wind and Freezing Cold Get an Icy Grip on Northeast U.S.
  New York Times
  January 16, 2004

• Rikers Houses Low-Level Inmates at High Expense
  New York Times
  January 16, 2004

• 120 homeless find shelter to escape blistering cold
  Staten Island Advance
  January 16, 2004

• Somebody Please Turn Up the Heat, Hand Over a Blanket and Call 311
  New York Times
  January 15, 2004

• Deep Freeze Grips Region
  The Record
  January 15, 2004

• People crowd shelters seeking warmth, food, and assistance
  Associated Press
  January 15, 2004

• Homeless evicted from Bronx camp
  Newdsay
  January 14, 2004

• The Suicide of Mr. A by Anya Kamenetz
  The Village Voice
  January 14, 2004

• Crackdown Falters as 2 Rulings Favor Adult Homes
  New York Times
  January 14, 2004

• Workers Raze Homeless Encampment
  Newsday
  January 13, 2003

• New York City: Homeless Struggle To Survive During Killer Cold Snap
  Newsday
  January 13, 2004

• One On 1: Homeless Advocate Mary Brosnahan Sullivan (video)
  New York 1
  January 12, 2004

• Tough Times For Suffolk's Adult Homes
  Newsday
  January 12, 2004

• Study: Low-wage workers on the rise in New York
  Associated Press
  January 11, 2004

• Baby, it's cold outside
  Staten Island Advance
  January 11, 2004

• It's Brrrr-rutal Out There
  Newsday
  January 10, 2004

• Hypothermia and Frostbite: What To Do
  Newsday
  January 9, 2004

• Canadians on high alert over severe cold
  CTV
  January 9, 2004

• Shudder to think of it: It's getting colder
  New York Daily News
  January 9, 2004

• Harboring controversy
  Buffalo News
  January 9, 2004

• Enormous humanitarian needs in Bam one week after the earthquake
  Reuters
  January 9, 2004

• Back Bay's Dog Man
  The Boston Globe
  January 9, 2004

• Newsom pushes big bond measure for homeless
  San Francisco Chronicle
  January 8, 2004

• A death on the street
  Boston Globe
  January 7, 2004

• Code Blue site proves haven for homeless
  Baltimore Sun
  January 8, 2004

• Out in the COLD
  Indian Express Newspapers
  January 7, 2004

• Atlanta Mayor Vows to Help Homeless
  WXIA-TV
  January 7, 2004

• As Mercury Drops, City Deploys Outreach Teams To Help The Homeless (video)
  New York 1
  January 7, 2004

• Tenants Vent Their Anger at Hearing on Rent Increases
  New York Times
  January 7, 2004

• Nearly half of New York City's homeless are children
  WSWS
  January 7, 2004

• Turmoil, neglect have millions homeless in Iraq
  San Francisco Chronicle
  January 5, 2004

• Invisible People, Seen and Heard at Center Stage
  New York Times
  January 4, 2004

• Cold raises health risks for Bam homeless-IFRC
  Reuters
  January 2, 2004

• Fog, cold disrupt life; toll nearly 300
  India News
  January 2, 2004

2003

• As Temperature Drops, City Admits Homelessness At Record High (video)
  New York 1
  December 3, 2003

• A New Kind Of Poverty
  Newsweek
  December 1, 2003

• Court Relief Sought for Homeless Women
  Safety Net Online
  November 25, 2003

• Gabe Pressman Interviews CFTH ED Mary Brosnahan Sullivan on NYC's Homeless
  WNBC.com
  November 23, 2003

• Coalition for the Homeless Gets New Building
  New York Times
  November 16, 2003

• Women Without Homes
  Newsday
  November 15, 2003

• 1 in 4 homeless on streets
  New York Daily News
  March 28, 2003

• Mayor's homeless plan won't work
  New York Daily News
  February 26, 2003

• Bloomberg Pursues Plan to Eject Homeless Men and Women from Shelters to the Streets
  Safety Net Online
  February 20, 2003

• Right to Shelter Fact vs Fiction (pdf)

• Shelter Termination Regulation (18 NYCRR 352.35 pdf)

• Callahan Appellate Brief 2003 (pdf).

• State of the Homeless 2003 Report (pdf)

• Coalition for the Homeless Opened The NASDAQ Stock Market
  NASDAQ.com
  February 10, 2003

• NASDAQ Market Ceremony Photos

• Pataki Offers $80 Million Plan to Fix System for Mentally Ill
  New York Times
  January 30, 2003

• Broken Homes
  New York Times
  December 2002

• When Homeless Break Rules at Shelters
  New York Times
  January 21, 2003

December, 2003

• Dipping Temperatures Take Death Toll to 197
  India News
  December 30, 2003

• Nearly 150 die in India cold wave
  BBC News
  December 30, 2003

• From suitcases, pained stories of life in asylum
  Albany Times Union
  December 29, 2003

• A refugee's triumph over desolation
  Boston Globe
  December 28, 2003

• Pork Shortage for the Homeless
  New York Times
  December 27, 2003

• Home Without a Home
  Newsday
  December 26, 2003

• Death at Raos, but Life Goes On at the Dumpster
  New York Time
  December 24, 2003

• Medicaid Plan Would Restrict Nursing Homes to Truly Poor
  New York Times
  December 23, 2003

• Report Faults City on Health Care for Mentally Ill
  New York Times
  December 23, 2003

• Violent attacks spur march
  Portland Press Herald
  December 23, 2003

• Assemblyman Says the City Housing Authority Keeps Too Many Apartments Vacant
  New York Times
  December 22, 2003

• NGO wants homes for homeless
  Express News Service
  December 22, 2003

• Supreme Court to hear suit on shelters for homeless
  India News
  December 22, 2003

• Billion$ in Food Stamps Go Unused
  New York Post
  December 22, 2003

• Hard Lives, Hard Choices
  New York Times
  December 21, 2003

• One Housing Woe Gives Way to Another
  New York Times
  December 21, 2003

• Change the Channel
  New York Times
  December 19, 2003

• Mayor Vetoes Lead Paint Bill
  Newsday
  December 19, 2003

• Hunger, Homelessness Still On the Rise in Major U.S. Cities
  U.S. Conference of Mayors - Sodexho
  December 18, 2003

• For New Homeless in Japan There is Disdain and Danger
  New York Times
  December 17, 2003

• City To Open New Shelter For Homeless Women In Brooklyn (video)
  New York 1
  December 16, 2003

• Council, Ignoring Veto Threat, Approves Tough Lead-Paint Bill
  New York Times
  December 16, 2003

• The Alchemy of a Zoning Bonus
  New York Times
  December 14, 2003

• Activists Mourn Homeless Man
  Denver Post
  December 12, 2003

• SCHUMER: OVER $10 MILLION COMING TO NEW YORK STATE FOR EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM
  Senator Schumer
  December 9, 2003

• Pay Pataki $5.15 an hour
  New York Daily News
  December 9, 2003

• No Cheer for the Unemployed
  New York Times
  December 9, 2003

• HOMELESSNESS NEWS
  Gotham Gazette
  December 8, 2003

• A Forced March
  New York Times
  December 7, 2003

• Deadly Moscow cold claims 102
  News 24.com
  December 5, 2003

• Elusive Helping Hands in the City
  New York Times
  December 5, 2003

• City's shame: No room to live
  New York Daily News
  December 1, 2003

• In Depth: Homeless shelters (video)
  News 12
  December 1, 2003

November, 2003

• Homeless, but Hardly Friendless
  New York Times
  November 30, 2003

• The Unemployment Myth
  New York Times
  November 30, 2003

• School Is Haven When Children Have No Home
  New York Times
  November 27, 2003

• Home Truths
  Mother Jones
  November 27, 2003

• Food - for the soul, too
  New York Daily News
  November 27, 2003

• Food pantries overwhelmed by demand
  New York Daily News
  November 26, 2003

• Mayor Seeks 10-Year Plan to Address Homelessness
  New York Times
  November 22, 2003

• City's working poor a study in despair
  New York Daily News
  November 21, 2003

• Bit by Bit, Government Eases Its Grip on Rents in New York
  New York Times
  November 19, 2003

• Advocate For Chicago Homeless Dies
  NBC5.com
  November 19, 2003

• Coalition for the Homeless Gets New Building
  New York Times
  November 16, 2003

• As Rents Rise, So Does Deregulation
  New York Times
  November 16, 2003

• Women Without Homes
  Newsday
  November 15, 2003

• Lawsuit Calls for Better Shelter System
  Newsday
  November 6, 2003

August - September, 2003

• NYC May Begin Enforcing Restrictions on Homeless
  New York Law Journal
  September 29, 2003

• City Cleared to Evict Disruptive From Shelters
  New York Times
  September 27, 2003

• North of New York City, Housing Prices Are Soaring
  New York Times
  September 24, 2003

• Rising tide of homeless
  New York Daily News
  September 24th, 2003

• Gimme Shelter
  TomPaine.com
  August 26, 2003

July, 2003

• HOMELESSNESS RECONSIDERED
  City Limits
  July/August 2003

• Helping Homeless, One Night at a Time
  Forward
  August 8, 2003

• Numbers of Homeless Children on the Rise in Baghdad
  VOA News
  July 29, 2003

• Bridge dwellers get a reprieve
  The Cincinnati Enquirer
  July 22, 2003

• Don't Rush to Evict Homeless From Shelters
  Newsday
  July 22, 2003

• Homeless deaths met with apathy
  The Seattle Times
  July 17, 2003

• In the streets because the homeless want to be
  El Diario
  July 15, 2003

• In Los Angeles, Skid Row Resists an Upgrade
  New York Times
  July 15, 2003

• Bloomberg- Nobody is sleeping on the streets
  El Diario
  July 14, 2003

• Nearly 8,100 homeless adults in New York City
  El Diario
  July 14, 2003

• RUBY IS A GEM
  New York Post
  July 14, 2003

• Deal Ends Eviction Threat for Shelter Residents
  New York Times
  July 10, 2003

• Homeless players find joy on soccer field
  Associated Press
  July 8, 2003

• Shelter Operator Threatens Evictions in Contract Fight
  New York Times
  July 9, 2003

• Living on the Edge
  Newsday
  July 7, 2003

• The New Homeless
  CBS News
  July 3, 2003

• Record Number of Homeless, but City Says It's Prepared
  New York Times
  July 2, 2003

• Suit Says State Is Segregating Mentally Ill
  New York Times
  July 1, 2003

• Read the NY Adult Homes Complaint

• Broken Homes
  New York Times
  

June, 2003

• Handshake Hotels: Part 1
  WNYC
  June 25, 2003

• Part 2

• Part 3

• Albany Extends Landlord Power Over Rent Curbs
  New York Times
  June 21, 2003

• China Voids Rule On Jailing Vagrants Policy Blamed for Hundreds of Deaths
  Washington Post Foreign Service
  June 19, 2003

• NYC confident of meeting capacity needs at homeless shelters
  Associated Press
  June 18, 2003

• HOMELESS BOATS SINK
  New York Post
  June 18, 2003

• Rent-Control Debate Rages
  Newsday
  June 17, 2003

• CITY LIT: HOMELESSNESS RECONSIDERED
  City Limits
  July/August 2003

• When Rent Control Just Vanishes
  New York Times
  June 15, 2003

• Shelter, by the Rules
  New York Times
  June 12, 2003

• Shelters Win Right to Evict Rule Violators
  New York Times
  June 11, 2003

• Homeless Men Not Guaranteed Shelter by City
  New York Law Journal
  June 11, 2003

• From Welfare to (Course) Work
  New York Times
  June 10, 2003

• Homeless children unwelcome in Iraq
  Contra Costa Times
  June 8, 2003

• U.N.: Health problems widespread in Iraq
  Associated Press
  June 8, 2003

• Up and Off the Streets
  New York Times
  June 9, 2003

• At City Shelter, Who'll Disinfect the Roof?
  New York Times
  June 8, 2003

• Monsoon Arrival Welcome Relief for Scorched India
  Reuters
  June 5, 2003

• COUNCIL: SANCTIONS UNSETTLING
  City Limits
  June 2, 2003

• Tenants need mayor's voice
  New York Daily News
  June 1, 2003

• As Clock Ticks, Albany Makes an Effort to Fix Adult Homes
  New York Times
  June 1, 2003

• What's Going On: J.R.'s Story
  UN.org
  June, 2003

May, 2003

• Mean streets getting meaner; Cities launch crackdowns on homeless
  Chicago Tribune
  May 30, 2003

• Advocates testify to keep homeless drop-in centers
  Staten Island Advance
  May 28, 2003

• Boom Times in the City's Housing Courts
  New York Times
  May 27, 2003

• Legislating NIMBY
  Gotham Gazette
  May, 2003

• From Work to Welfare? Reversal Feared in City Layoffs
  New York Times
  May 21, 2003

• Man busted for stalking Mets' GM
  New York Daily News
  May 21, 2003

• Gotbaum rips housing sites for homeless
  New York Daily News
  May 20, 2003

• Doctor Admits He Did Needless Surgery on the Mentally Ill
  New York Times
  May 20, 2003

• Bloomberg Aims to Move Many Infirm Welfare Recipients Into Work Force
  New York Times
  May 10, 2003

• Board Authorizes Jumps in Rent Up to 8.5 Percent
  New York Times
  May 6, 2003

• City Sticks to a Strict Food Stamp Policy
  New York Times
  May 2, 2003

• Braced for 10,000 homeless families
  New York Daily News
  May 1, 2003

• Record Homelessness Expected
  Newsday
  May 1, 2003

• Albany Spurns Plan to Rectify Adult Homes After Heavy Lobbying
  New York Times
  May 1, 2003

• Albany cuts Pataki's plan to redress adult homes
  Associated Press
  May 1, 2003

April, 2003

• Report Finds Number of Black Children in Deep Poverty Rising
  New York Times
  April 30, 2003

• Bratton talks with activists
  LA Daily News
  April 30, 2003

• Bush's homeless goals draw skeptics
  San Francisco Chronicle
  April 29, 2003

• City and State to Give Free Asthma Care to Homeless Children
  New York Times
  April 29, 2003

• Homeless to Represent U.S. in Soccer in Austria
  New York Times
  April 26, 2003

• TENANTS STARING AT DOUBLE-DIGIT HIKES
  NY Post
  April 25, 2003

• Renters Wary Of Big Hike
  Newsday
  April 25, 2003

• STATE LOST 293,000 JOBS IN 2-YR. SLUMP
  NY Post
  April 22, 2003

• Japan's homeless find it hard to rebuild lives - Apr. 22, 2003
  Reuters
  April 22, 2003

• More Than a Roof for Girls Leaving Foster Care
  New York Times
  April 21, 2003

• HOW MAYORS BUDGET HITS THE HOMELESS AND FOSTER KIDS
  City Limits
  April 21, 2003

• Plant closing shatters workers
  New York Daily News
  April 21, 2003

• An 'Invisible Crisis': Homeless Day Laborers
  Newsday
  April 21, 2003

• Saving Dollars, Breaking Souls
  Newsday
  April 20, 2003

• The city's hungry can't afford cuts
  New York Daily News
  April 17, 2003

• Mayor's plan would eliminate 21 homeless outreach teams, eight drop-in centers
  NY Post
  April 16, 2003

• The Mayor's Mistake on Workfare
  New York Times
  April 15, 2003

• Doomsday budget means 10,000 layoffs, 30-40 firehouse closings, and more
  The Associated Press
  April 15, 2003

• 5.9% landlord take sets stage for rent fight
  New York Daily News
  April 15, 2003

• Judge continues bar of police Skid Row sweeps
  Associated Press
  April 14, 2003

• The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal win Pulitzers
  The Associated Press
  April 7, 2003

• State faces prospect uncertain
  The Associated Press
  April 7, 2003

• Budget woes threaten state research centers
  The Associated Press
  April 7, 2003

• PAYCHECK PLUNGE
  NY Post
  April 4, 2003

March, 2003

• COUNT ON FIGHT OVER HOMELESS
  NY Post
  March 28, 2003

• City Says 1,780 Homeless Are Sleeping on Manhattan Streets
  New York Times
  March 28, 2003

• City's homeless estimate prompts plans and criticism
  The Associated Press
  March 27, 2003

• Police File Charges Against Officer Who Refused to Arrest Homeless Man
  New York Times
  March 26, 2003

• MIKE EVICTS RENT PANELISTS BEFORE HEARING ON HIKE
  NY Post
  March 25, 2003

• War and Homelessness
  Safety Net Online
  March 19, 2003

• Tax-Cut Plan May Endanger New Housing
  New York Times
  March 19, 2003

• Students help keep homeless warm
  Daily Record
  March 19, 2003

• Glimpse Into Hidden World
  Newsday
  March 17, 2003

• Mayor Vetoes Welfare-To-Work Bill
  Newsday
  March 15, 2003

• $CATTER-DRAINED CITY
  NY Post
  March 14, 2003

• Council backs new lease on rent laws
  New York Daily News
  March 13, 2003

• Empty Promises
  The Village Voice
  March 12, 2003

• STATE OWES BACK RENT
  City Limits
  March 10, 2003

• Rent Regulation
  Gotham Gazette
  March 9, 2003

• Group Gives Mayor F On Homeless Services
  Newsday
  March 8, 2003

• True champion of the homeless
  New York Daily News
  March 7, 2003

• There Go the Neighborhoods: Rich and Poor, Side by Side
  New York Times
  March 5, 2003

• Dozens protest for benefit increases for disabled welfare recipients
  The Associated Press
  March 3, 2003

• City Pursuing Right to Evict From Shelters
  New York Times
  March 1, 2003

• ROOM FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES
  City Limits
  March 2003 

February, 2003

• City Fights For Right To Ban Homeless Adults From Shelters (video)
  New York 1
  February 28, 2003

• How the Other Half Still Lives
  The Nation
  February 27, 2003

• I WAS HOMELESS - BUT I DIDN'T COUNT
  NY Post
  February 26, 2003

• Volunteers Outnumber Subjects in Homeless Census
  New York Times
  February 26, 2003

• City misses countless homeless
  New York Daily News
  February 26, 2003

• A Fine First Step
  Newsweek
  February 25, 2003

• Report on Lots Sold by City Says Many Stay Vacant
  New York Times
  February 25, 2003

• Protesters: Don't give city power to evict from shelters
  Newsday
  February 25, 2003

• Advocates Protest City's Homeless Shelter Eviction Plan (video)
  New York 1
  February 24, 2003

• Homeless advocates, officials scold city on legal appeal
  The Associated Press February 24, 2003

• HUNDREDS OF HOMELESS NEW YORKERS PROTEST BLOOMBERG PLAN (pdf)
  February 24, 2003

• Right to Shelter Rally Release(pdf)

• A Homeless Babushka's Shopping Cart
  Forward
  February 21, 2003

• New York City to Try Homeless Count Despite Attack on Accuracy
  New York Times
  February 21, 2003

• STORMING THE SHELTERS
  NY Post
  February 20, 2003

• Homeless Count Up
  Newsday
  February 20, 2003

• Homeless may hit record
  New York Daily News
  February 20, 2003

• NYC Homeless Population on Course to Exceed 40,000
  Newsday
  February 19, 2003

• Homeless Advocates Critcize Bloomberg's Plan For Shelters (video)
  New York 1
  February 19, 2003

• NYC homeless shelter population reaches record high
  The Associated Press
  February 19, 2003

• State of the Homeless 2003 News Advisory (pdf)

• Economy Is Tough All Over, but in New York, It's Horrid
  New York Times
  February 19, 2003

• Nassau Uses Law to Take Homeless in From Cold
  Newsday
  February 19, 2003

• Public Housing
  Gotham Gazette
  February 17, 2003

• There goes the nabe - and that's not all bad
  New York Daily News
  February 16, 2003

• Record numbers swamp New York City's homeless shelters
  WSWS
  February 15, 2003

• NY/NY III Valentines for Bloomberg (pdf)

• Class action status given to mental retardation lawsuit
  The Associated Press
  February 13, 2003

• City Spends $70 Million on a Homeless Program
  WNYC
  February 12, 2003

• A Place of Her Own
  Newsday
  February 10, 2003

• City Takes New Approaches to Solving Homeless Problem
  Gotham Gazette
  February, 2003

• NY/NY III News Advisory (pdf)

• HOMELESS QUINTS
  NY Post
  February 10, 2003

• B'KLYN HOUSING FUROR
  NY Post
  February 10, 2003

• BIGGER $QUEEZE ON APPLE APT. DWELLERS
  NY Post
  February 8, 2003

• Homeless, poor freeze in US cold wave
  WSWS
  February 5, 2003

• BUSH PLAN COULD TAX HOUSING
  City Limits
  February 3, 2003

January, 2003

• Reservist Finds A Home in War
  Newsday
  January 31, 2003

• After 8 years in boro park, homeless mom finds a bed
  Times-Ledger
  January 30, 2003

• Church Pays Tribute to a Man Whose Home Was Its Steps
  New York Times
  January 30, 2003

• For Some on Cold Nights, Home Is a Subway Tunnel
  Newsday
  January 27, 2003

• ICY TEMPS EYED IN TWO DEATHS
  NY Post
  January 27, 2003

• Bloomberg Offers Optimism at 5 Churches
  New York Times
  January 27, 2003

• Cold spell packs homeless shelters
  The Post Standard
  January 25, 2003

• Cold, hard reality for city homeless
  New York Daily News
  January 24th, 2003

• Alternate Dispute Resolution Was Key to Settlement of Homeless Litigation
  New York Law Journal
  January 23, 2003

• Finding a Home Under Highway, Even as Rats Flee
  New York Times
  January 23, 2003

• Chill packing shelters
  New York Daily News
  January 22, 2003

• HOMELESS HEADCOUNT
  NY Post
  January 22, 2003

• Killer cold claims nearly 2000
  South African Press Association
  January 22, 2003

• SONY PROBED FOR BOOTING HOMELESS
  NY Post
  January 21, 2003

• In Historic Move, City Settles Decades Old Homeless Suit
  City Limits Weekly
  January 20, 2003

• Shouldering a cold load
  New York Daily News
  January 20, 2003

• THOUSANDS COLD CALL BIG APPLE HEAT LINE
  NY Post
  January 20, 2003

• More deaths as S. Asian freeze goes on, 1,600 Dead
  The Associated Press
  January 20, 2003

• The Real Face Of Homelessness
  TIME.com Jan. 20, 2003

• Pride Was Behind Lawsuit, Woman at Heart of It Says
  New York Times
  January 19, 2003

• For Homeless, Winter's Grip Strongest at Night
  Newsday
  January 19, 2003

• Deep freeze, d-d-day two
  New York Daily News
  January 19, 2003

• Death toll climbs to 1,500 in South Asia cold wave
  Daily Times
  January 19, 2003

• New York Reaches Deal to End Legal Fight on Homeless
  New York Times
  January 18, 2003

• S. Asia Cold Spell Worsens, Death Toll Over 1,300
  The Associated Press
  January 16, 2003

• MSF Launches Campaign to Prevent Winter Death Toll of Homeless on Moscow Streets
  Doctors Without Borders
  January 15, 2003

• Concern For The Homeless Rises As Temperatures Drop (video)
  New York 1
  January 13, 2003

• Streetscapes/Fulton Street Between Nassau and Williams Streets; A Vibrant and Noisy Block With Varied Architecture
  New York Times ($)
  January 12, 2003

• Minus 4 on Mean Streets: Nonpersons Are Dying
  New York Times
  January 10, 2003

• City Agrees to Help Care for Mentally Ill Inmates After Release
  New York Times
  January 9, 2003

• Tenants Claim Evictions Were to House Homeless
  New York Times
  January 7, 2003

• Assessing Mayor Bloomberg
  New York Times
  January 2, 2003

2002

• Record 38,000 without homes
  New York Daily News
  December 31st, 2002

• Mayor Bloomberg Brings Housing Home
  New York Times
  December 27, 2002

• Life After Welfare in the Here and Now of America's Jammed Shelters
  New York Times
  December 24, 2002

• Temporary Homeless Plan Keeps Growing in New York
  New York Times
  December 24, 2002

• Shelter kids' simple wish
  New York Daily News
  December 24th, 2002

• New York Eyes Evictions at Crowded Homeless Shelters (audio)
  National Public Radio
  Nov. 13, 2002

December, 2002

• City Jobless Rate Rises to 8%, Continuing an Upward Climb
  New York Times
  December 20, 2002

• Fannie Mae Director Sees Housing as a Mission
  New York Times
  December 20, 2002

• Mayor Calls for Thousands of New Homes
  New York Times
  December 11, 2002

• Homeless Turn to Shelters as Temperatures Turn Icy
  New York Times
  December 4, 2002

• Home Remedies
  City Limits
  December 2002

November, 2002

• New York Says Those on Welfare Are Increasingly Hard to Employ
  New York Times
  November 29, 2002

• Police Officer Is Suspended for Defiance
  New York Times
  November 28, 2002

• There Goes the Neighborhood
  New York Times
  November 24, 2002
  
  

• Homeless Advocates Hold Vigil To Protest Shelter Policy (video) New York 1
  November 24, 2002

• Officials Tour Cruise Ships in a Search for Shelter Space
  New York Times
  November 21, 2002

• City To Provide Rental Assistance To Move Homeless From Shelters (video)
  New York 1
  September 18, 2002

• From Middle Class to the Shelter Door
  New York Times
  November 17, 2002

• Homeless in the Hamptons: Here, It's the Poor Who Are Different
  New York Times
  November 3, 2002

• Where the Wounds Don't Show
  New York Times
  November 3, 2002

• An Apartment, and a Step Toward a Home
  New York Times
  November 3, 2002

• A teenager's view of the EAU
  City Limits
  November 2002

October, 2002

• Bloomberg Balances Needs -- His and the Poor'sHow Does His Dole Grow?
  The Village Voice
  October 23 - 29, 2002

• New York's Homeless, Back Out in the Open
  New York Times
  October 13, 2002

• From Welfare to Work, and Then, to What?
  New York Times
  October 6, 2002

January-September, 2002

• City to Pay Millions To Homeless Forced To Sleep in an Office
  New York Times ($)
  September 20, 2002

• City to Seek Power to Evict Some Families From Shelters
  New York Times ($)
  September 19, 2002

• Homelessness
  Gotham Gazette
  September 16, 2002

• Dubious Benefits
  City Limits
  July/August 2002
  
  

• Homeless Advocates Rally Outside Governor's Manhattan Office
  New York 1
  June 5, 2002

• 3 Months in Office, Bloomberg Has Set New Political Tone
  New York Times
  March 30, 2002

• To Be Young and Homeless
  New York Times Magazine
  March 24, 2002
  
  

• New Yorkers Seeking Affordable Housing Face Sacrifice
  Bloomberg News
  February 25, 2002
  
  

• Bloomberg and the Man on the Street; Reaching Out to the Homeless, Mayor Finds No Easy Answers
  New York Times
  January 20, 2002

• City Hall Memo; Mayor Sets Freer Tone, At Least At the Outset
  New York Times
  January 11, 2002

• In Making Crowded Homeless Shelters Safer, Some View the Issue With a Sense of Security
  New York Times ($)
  January 10, 2002

• Atlantic Men's Shelter
  Gotham Gazette

• Review of Kenneth Kusmer's Down and Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History
  New York Times Book Review
  
  

2001

• As Winter Looms, Advocates for the Homeless Raise the Alarm
  New York Times
  December 16, 2001
  
  

• Giuliani to Appeal Decision on a Work for Shelter Policy
  New York Times
  December 7, 2001
  
  

• WTC Disaster Causes Record Number Of Homeless To Seek Shelter (video)
  New York 1
  November 1, 2001

• Use of Shelters by Families Sets Record in City
  New York Times
  August 1, 2001
  
  

• Number Of Homeless Families Hits Record High (video)
  New York 1
  August 1, 2001

• For Advocates for Homeless, a Familiar Problem
  New York Times
  June 10, 2001

• 120 Groups Join to Push $10 Billion Housing Plan
  New York Times
  June 1, 2001
  
  

• Giuliani Internalized
  New York Times
  February 11, 2001

• Homeless Shelters in New York Fill to Highest Level Since 80s
  New York Times
  February 8, 2001
  
  

• Planning Just One Funnel for 5 Boroughs' Homeless
  New York Times
  January 14, 2001
  
  

• THE MAYOR'S ADDRESS: HOUSING; Lowering Costs Seen as Crucial To Building Plan
  New York Times
  January 9, 2001

2000

• Housing Crisis Confounds a Prosperous City; In New York, Scarcity and High Costs Spur Competing Ideas for a Solution
  New York Times
  July 9, 2000
  
  

• After 7-Year Fight, Homeless Get $816,000 in Back Wages
  New York Times
  October 25, 2000
  
  

• To Help the Homeless, New York Must Build
  New York Times
  October 15, 2000

• Changing Course, Giuliani Proposes Rent Subsidies for Homeless Families
  New York Times
  October 12, 2000

• Homeless New Yorkers Fear They'll Be Undercounted (video)
  New York 1
  May 5, 2000

• Bronx Women's Shelter Slated for Closing in June (video)
  New York 1
  April 12, 2000

• Activists, Afterward
  New York Times
  April 2, 2000

• City Defies HUD Over Homeless Grants
  New York Times
  March 30, 2000

• First lady calls for increased aid for homeless
  CNN
  March 16, 2000

• Toward A Sensible Homeless Policy
  New York Times
  February 25, 2000
  
  

• City Rules for Shelters Held Illegal
  New York Times
  February 23, 2000
  
  

• Temporary Shelter Can't be Tied to Workfare
  New York Law Journal
  February 23, 2000
  
  

• In America; A Cold Wind Blows
  New York Times
  January 24, 2000
  
  

• Liberties; Haute Homeless
  New York Times
  January 23, 2000

• Police Arrest 125 in Nighttime Raids on Homeless Shelters
  New York Times
  January 20, 2000
  
  

• State of the City, On Two Fronts
  New York Times
  January 19, 2000

• 3 New Yorkers Die as Temperatures Plunge to 6-Year Low
  New York Times
  January 19, 2000
  
  

• Justices Again Delay a Plan to Require Work for Shelter
  New York Times
  January 8, 2000
  
  

• Protests, Lawsuits Stall Giuliani's Homeless Crackdown
  Tenant.Net
  
  

1999

• New York Debut for Inflatable Shelters for the Homeless
  New York Times
  December 27, 1999

• Mayor's Foes Say Homeless Aren't Filling City Shelters
  New York Times
  December 21, 1999

• Shelters Vow to Defy Mayor on Work Rule
  New York Times
  December 18, 1999
  
  

• Work-for-Shelter Requirement is Delayed by New York Judges
  New York Times
  December 9, 1999
  
  

• Mayor Defends Homeless Efforts as a Carefully Coordinated Plan
  New York Times
  December 9, 1999
  
  

• 1,000 in Park Denounce Giuliani on Homeless Arrest Policy
  New York Times ($)
  December 6, 1999

• Labeling the Homeless, in Compassion and C