Year: 2009

As the New York Times reported this past weekend, the Bloomberg administration has implemented a new policy requiring homeless families with employment income to pay for some of the cost of shelter. If they do not comply with the misguided new rules, the pol ..Read More

Last week, Coalition for the Homeless released the tenth annual “State of the Homeless” report, which documented how the economic recession, coupled with the worsening housing affordability crunch, has driven family homelessness in New York City to ..Read More

The New York Times has offered New Yorkers a rare look inside one of the dozens of illegal boarding houses increasingly used by the City of New York to shelter homeless adults. This week’s “Rooms” photo-essay spotlights an illegally-converte ..Read More

Yesterday, the New York City Department of Homeless Service released the results of its annual – and annually disputed – HOPE survey of street homelessness, and this year the City’s claims were met by extraordinary skepticism. City official ..Read More

The recent frigid weather in New York City (tonight’s temperature is forecast to drop to 13 degrees Fahrenheit) is another life-and-death reminder of the Bloomberg administration’s dangerous proposals to radically change the City’s approach t ..Read More

Right before the holidays, the Coalition released alarming new public data showing that, at the end of November, there were 9,720 homeless families sleeping in New York City municipal shelters – the highest number since modern homeless began nearly three ..Read More