A Crisis Inherited, A Choice Ahead
Affordable Housing for Homeless New Yorkers
Featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Monday June 22nd.
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.
Nearly 195,000 people slept in DHS shelters in 2025, the most in system’s history…
“After years of advocacy by the Coalition and many partners and a strong and passionate final push by Speaker Julie Menin, Council Member Pierina Sanchez, and the members of the Progressive Caucus and the Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus…”
Nearly 195,000 people slept in the New York City shelter system in 2025, marking a grim milestone in the system’s history, according to an annual report from the Coalition for the Homeless…
The number of homeless New Yorkers sleeping in city shelters grew 27% during the Adams administration, fueled by crowded and unlivable housing conditions and evictions, a report said…
The WiFi4Homeless Campaign applauds the passage of S.8026-A / A.1755-A by both houses of the New York State Legislature. The campaign thanks Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Assemblymember Reyes for their leadership in passing this legislation…
As evening fell over the sun-drenched Highlight Room on the Lower East Side, 90 compassionate New York professionals gathered to connect, cheer on the Knicks, and rally together to raise crucial funds for the Coalition for the Homeless…
Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director David Giffen issued the following statement in response to the City’s Block by Block housing plan…
The Mamdani administration is facing some pushback from Brooklyn residents over its plans to open two temporary homeless shelters inside hotels in Brooklyn…
Supporters say expanding the state’s new Housing Access Voucher Program, which helps low-income New Yorkers at risk of homelessness afford a place to live, could bridge the gap for 5,500 city households whose federal rent assistance expires this year…
The city notified two Brooklyn community boards that it will be converting hotels to new shelters for single adult men, stating that they needed to offset lost capacity from the planned closure of the central Bellevue intake facility on Manhattan’s East Side…
