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It is not easy seeing someone trying to survive on the streets of the city.
We bring hot nutritious meals to those living rough on the streets of the city, every night of the year.
We provide lifesaving services to more than 11,000 homeless and at-risk individuals and families per year.
We give homeless families and single adults the dignity and stability of a home of their own.
We offer homeless and low-income women the training and support they need to find living-wage jobs.
We give homeless kids the help and support they need to keep up with the peers at school.
We advance long-term solutions to the crisis of homelessness and defend the rights of homeless people.
Updates from the Coalition for the Homeless. To see our recent statements, visit our Press Room.
In the late 1970s, Robert Callahan slept on the streets of the Bowery. He was destitute and lived with substance abuse, which made it difficult for him to secure and maintain permanent housing…
“The City’s shameful revised application would go far beyond limiting its obligation to provide some form of emergency shelter to asylum seekers and other new arrivals…
At a former New York City high school converted into a shelter for migrants, washed jeans hang to dry on a fence and hateful messages blare from protesters wielding a loudspeaker: “Wake up, wake up, wake up…
A Manhattan judge overseeing the city’s right-to-shelter case recused herself from the matter Tuesday over concerns about her impartiality — a move that came as lawyers for Mayor Adams forged ahead with a push to suspend the decades-old shelter mandate…
People who receive rental vouchers from New York City will now be able to use those benefits throughout the state under an unprecedented new policy Mayor Adams unveiled Tuesday morning…
What to look for and ask about in the week ahead in the City’s and State’s efforts to manage New York’s crisis of increasing homelessness and the influx of new arrivals…
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams are more aligned than ever ahead of a court hearing Tuesday on the city’s right-to-shelter provision…