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The Callahan deal is not a victory
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The Callahan deal is not a victory
Friday, March 22, 2024
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...
Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless announce settlement in Callahan v. Carey, preserving NYC’s Right to Shelter settlement protects the right to shelter for anyone in need. City agrees to eliminate backlog of new arrivals who are reapplying for shelter, end use of waiting rooms as shelter.
Friday, March 15, 2024
(NEW YORK, NY) – The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless, following a court-supervised mediation led by New York State Supreme Court Judge Gerald Lebovits, announced a settlement with the City to end the government’s legal challenge to...
Joint Statement from Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless on the City Evacuating Families with Children from Floyd Bennett Field
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
“This last-minute evacuation further proves that Floyd Bennett Field - a facility mired in a flood zone, miles from schools and other services - has never and will never serve as an appropriate and safe place to shelter families with...
Joint Statement from Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless on NYC DOI Report on PATH Intake Issues
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
“This investigation reveals a disturbing cover-up by the City to hide the number of Right to Shelter violations it amassed in the summer of 2022. We are extremely troubled by the City’s actions, and by the finding that the City manipulated shelter...
New Ad Narrated by Richard Gere Warns of Tent Cities in New York City if Right to Shelter Dismantled
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
The Coalition for the Homeless launched a new ad campaign showing the tent cities that may soon appear on New York City streets if Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul succeed in gutting the “Right to...
NY SANE, Coalition for the Homeless, The Legal Aid Society, Win, Housing Justice for All, Host Rallies in NYC and Albany to Save Legal Right to Shelter
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The NY SANE coalition, including Coalition for the Homeless, The Legal Aid Society, Win, the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and Housing Justice for All – representing hundreds of housing and tenant organizations, labor unions, faith groups, advocates,...
Joint Statement from Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless in Response to the City Failing to Ensure Shelter for New Arrivals
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
“Denying new arrivals shelter has resulted in dozens of people sleeping on sidewalks awaiting placement and exposed to 20-degree weather, an egregious breach of the City’s legal and moral obligation to provide shelter in a timely fashion to anyone in...
Op-ed: Helping Homeless People Who Are Mentally Ill
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
“Behind Acts of Violence, Years of Mistakes” (front page, Nov. 21) effectively underscores the decades of neglect, underfunding and mismanagement that have made New York’s mental health system such a resounding failure for so many people in our...
ARTWALK NY Gala Honoring Jenny Holzer Raises Over $500,000 for Coalition for the Homeless
Friday, November 17, 2023
Hundreds of people from New York’s art, philanthropy, business, and activist communities gathered at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn to celebrate the return of ARTWALK NY, the city’s premier art auction and fundraising gala benefiting the Coalition for the...
Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless Call on Adams Administration to Abandon its Plan to Shelter Families with Children at Floyd Bennett Field
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless, following a tour of Floyd Bennett Field yesterday, called on the Adams Administration to abandon its plan to shelter families with children in a semi-congregate setting at the...
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