State of the Homeless 2025

Nowhere to Go

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Updates from the Coalition for the Homeless. To see our recent statements, visit our Press Room.

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Coalition for the Homeless Releases 2025 State of the Homeless Report: ‘Nowhere to Go’

Number of New Yorkers in Shelters Quietly Grew by 11.5% in 2024, as Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul Continue Failing to Focus on Proven Solutions…

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The candidates’ views on addressing homelessness in New York City differ vastly, with calls to expand mental health services, overhaul the shelter system and change policing…

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How the N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Plan to Tackle Homelessness

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Coalition for the Homeless submitted testimony before the Committees on General Welfare; Hospitals; and Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation of the New York City Council on the Impacts of Federal Budget Cuts…

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Coalition for the Homeless Testimony on Federal Budget Cuts

This summer marked another busy season for Coalition for the Homeless youth programs. Project: Back to School, Bound for Success, and Camp Homeward Bound touched the lives of thousands of homeless children in shelters across New York City…

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Our Youth Programs Over Summer 2025: Wrapping up Project: Back to School, Bound for Success, and Camp Homeward Bound

President Donald Trump wants cities and states to force homeless people with mental illness and addiction into treatment facilities. To make that happen, he signed an executive order…

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A new Trump order could upend the way NYC treats homeless people. Here’s what to know.

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Back-to-school season is in full swing across the country, which means summer camp season is coming to a close. For many kids, camps are a home away from home, but for some, they are the only home they know…

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Sleepaway camp Homeward Bound offers New York City homeless kids a place to belong

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The Legal Aid Society, together with the Coalition for the Homeless, Women in Need, and Neighbors Together, today won a lawsuit upholding an injunction preventing the City of New York from abruptly eliminating the longstanding Unit Hold Incentive for property owners renting to CityFHEPS voucher holders…

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Court Upholds Injunction Blocking City from Abruptly Ending Housing Incentive for Homeless New Yorkers

Mayor Eric Adams said Monday more than 3,500 New Yorkers who were living unsheltered have moved into housing since he took office in 2022…

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Mayor Adams says his administration has housed 3,500 unsheltered New Yorkers

President Trump on Monday announced plans to use the National Guard to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C. Mr. Trump also spoke about the homeless, and suggested New York City could be next…

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NYC homeless advocates react to President Trump's plan of "getting rid of the slums where they live

For the past four decades, the camp, which is run by the nonprofit Coalition for the Homeless, has provided refuge to thousands of the youngest residents of the city’s homeless shelters…

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A Summertime Haven for Homeless Children