Author: Giselle Routhier

Yesterday, after a 15-month battle, the New York Court of Appeals ruled against Advantage tenants in Zheng v. City of New York, officially ending the chance that any more rental payments will be made for remaining tenants. Read the final decision here. The ..Read More

Record temperatures this week can be dangerous for your health and safety. If you are homeless and living on the streets or staying in a shelter without air-conditioning, try and stay cool with the following suggestions: 1. Take advantage of Citywide Cooling C ..Read More

Today’s Wall Street Journal highlights a growing problem amidst already record homelessness in New York City – families returning to shelter from the failed Advantage program. As of the end of 2011, over 3,400 former-Advantage families had returned to sh ..Read More

Democracy Now! aired an in-depth report yesterday on record homelessness and the plight that many former Advantage families are now facing. Watch it here. Among the families with whom reporter Chantal Bergman spoke was Katrice Bryson and her young daughter. ..Read More

There is a political battle brewing in Albany over $1.25. Raising the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 is a big deal for our politicians, but it’s an even bigger deal for the one million workers that would be affected. These one million workers m ..Read More

Last week, an NBC investigative team delved into the City’s inhumane system that denies shelter to homeless families. NBC chronicled the story of April Gayles and her two children, 6 and 10 years old, who were forced to sleep in Penn Station after being de ..Read More

Yesterday, Coalition for the Homeless joined Council Members, advocates, and service providers on the steps of City Hall to call for restoration of over $5 million in proposed budget cuts to services for formerly homeless individuals living with HIV and AIDS ..Read More

The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a report last month that quantifies the affordable housing crisis in America. The main takeaway? As the number of low-income households continues to rise, the supply of affordable housing continues t ..Read More

WNYC reported this morning on the increasingly dire situation of 8,000 formerly-homeless tenants and their landlords, who have abruptly lost rental assistance payments under the Advantage program. After not receiving the City subsidy for two months, many lan ..Read More