Affordable Housing for Homeless New Yorkers
Guarantee Internet Access in Homeless Shelters
To benefit the Coalition for the Homeless
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.
Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director David Giffen issued the following statement in response to the City’s Block by Block housing plan…
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…
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…
Roughly 340 New Yorkers gathered at The Plaza Ballroom on Friday, April 24th, for the Coalition’s Women Mean Business Luncheon. The annual spring event is a celebration of the Coalition for the Homeless’ First Step Job Training Program, recognizing the courage and determination of the program’s graduates and raising crucial funds to support the program…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to move the primary shelter intake facility for men forced the city to quickly relocate hundreds of homeless people.
Dozens of affordable housing advocates gathered Wednesday outside Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence on the Upper East Side, to protest Zohran Mamdani’s decision to backpedal on his campaign promise to expand a city rental assistance program…
A judge temporarily blocked the city from opening a new intake shelter in the East Village Wednesday after a group of neighborhood residents filed a court challenge over how the Mamdani administration went about closing the existing 30th Street shelter…
