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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.
Last May, Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul initiated an attack on New York’s legal right to shelter for single adults based upon two faulty premises: first, that the city needed more flexibility in responding to the influx of thousands of…
Each Spring, the Coalition for the Homeless welcomes leading professionals from across New York City to the Women Mean Business Luncheon to be inspired and learn about our First Step Job Training Program and its amazing graduates. On Thursday April 18, more than 300 people joined us in The Plaza Ballroom to celebrate the 28th annual event.
Suit seeks enactment of CityFHEPS reform passed into law by Council override of Adams’ veto. Legislation would remove barriers to housing vouchers, preventing tens of thousands of New Yorkers from becoming homeless while saving the City thousands of dollars per household each month.
With homelessness at an all-time high, the Governor and Legislature’s budget puts more money in the pockets of real estate moguls and does nothing for low-income New Yorkers.
Meet Dorian. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Dorian moved to New York when she was 11 and that’s when life really began. After facing many tragic adversities including a violent ex-partner, homelessness and unemployment, Dorian found the Coalition for the Homeless’ First Step Job Training Program and…
City Hall says it has not yet begun implementing assessments of the “extenuating circumstances” that could earn newly arrived immigrants an extended shelter stay—while some seeking another placement continue to sleep on the floor of…
The Adams administration missed a court deadline on Monday that requires the city to clear a waitlist for immigrants awaiting a shelter bed, according to an attorney in the lawsuit.
As of March 31, City Hall has issued approximately 1,500 notices “to make alternate arrangement” to immigrants with 30-day shelter stays and to another 1,300 with 60-day notices, which are being offered to single migrants 23 and younger…
A resource for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals who may be experiencing homelessness in New York City.
After months of a Court-supervised mediation, the Coalition for the Homeless and the City reached a settlement that stops Mayor Adams’ and Governor Hochul’s nearly year-long efforts to dismantle New York’s long-standing Right to Shelter for single adults, established under Callahan v. Carey…
Josh Goldfein, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice, joined “Inside City Hall” to talk about the Right to Shelter law.
On Friday, the city announced a settlement with the Legal Aid Society over the Right to Shelter law. The agreement allows the city to limit shelter stays for some adult migrants for 30 days. Most migrants will not have a chance to reapply.