Home is Hope PSA and Statement Posted on November 10, 2021 EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO A HOME Forty years ago, the Coalition for the Homeless secured the legal right to shelter for New Yorkers without homes, creating a baseline of decency in our city. We need now to build on that baseline, because people need home ..Read More
Now or Never: The High Stakes of Federal Housing Funding Posted on October 21, 2021 by Rachel Fee in Gotham Gazette When President Biden and Congress first announced the details of the Build Back Better Act, they sent a loud and clear signal to housing advocates and stakeholders that help was finally on the way. The $330 billion investment into the Department of Housing and ..Read More
More than 100K NYC students were homeless at some point last school year Posted on November 8, 2021 by Michael Elsen-Rooney in New York Daily News More than 100,000 city public school students were homeless at some point during the past school year, according to new state Education Department data. For the sixth year in a row, more than 101,000 city kids lived in unstable housing, including 28,000 who sp ..Read More
Op-Ed | Section 8, or one man’s quest for a golden ticket Posted on November 3, 2021 by Winston Tokuhisa in amNY I am an aspiring software engineer, and first met Bill de Blasio, who was then the Public Advocate, in 2010 at a General Welfare Committee hearing, at which I testified about the challenges of trying to pursue an education while homeless. At the time, he was m ..Read More
Judge Mary Johnson Lowe, Unsung Trailblazer Posted on October 26, 2021 by Shelly Nortz As we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Coalition for the Homeless and the right to shelter, it is important to recognize some of the individuals who have been part of the Coalition’s history. Judge Mary Johnson Lowe, the first Black woman to serve on ..Read More
‘The Moratorium Saved Us. It Really Did.’ Posted on September 30, 2021 by Matthew Desmond in The New York Times Lakia Higbee thinks she got Covid-19 at the Amazon warehouse near Cleveland where she worked as a picker, filling orders for bleach and cat food and anything else customers wanted. ..Read More
NYC Eased Rules for Families Entering Homeless Shelters. Advocates Want the Changes Made Permanent Posted on October 4, 2021 by David Brand in CityLimits A coalition of nonprofit service providers is calling on New York City officials to formalize pandemic-related rule changes that have made life easier for families seeking space in municipal homeless shelters. ..Read More
Your Rights as a Voter Posted on October 7, 2021 by Jacquelyn Simone Can I vote without a permanent address? YES! In 1984, Coalition for the Homeless filed the lawsuit Pitts v. Black, which guaranteed the right to vote for homeless New Yorkers living in shelters, on the streets, or in welfare hotels. What do I need when I go to ..Read More
Homeless NYC veterans moved out of hotels and into cubicles in Queens shelter Posted on September 29, 2021 by By Nicholas Williams and Molly Crane-Newman in New York Daily News This is how New York City thanks them for their service. Cramped cubicles, a leaky ceiling, and a community bathroom. That’s not what homeless veterans — who were promised sanitary, private accommodations to keep COVID at bay — were expecting when they m ..Read More
