Author: Patrick Markee

The New York City Council held an important hearing about the problems homeless families confront when seeking emergency shelter – and how the City wrongfully denies shelter to families in crisis. Yesterday’s hearing, held jointly by the General We ..Read More

More and more unanswered questions remain about the City’s callous Homebase experiment, in which 200 needy families have been denied prevention services for two years. As we noted in an earlier post, elected officials and advocates have strongly critici ..Read More

The NYC Department of Homeless Services has callously cut off prevention services for 200 at-risk families as part of a “study” of the Homebase program. The New York Daily News‘ Tina Moore reported on Thursday that, as part of an evaluatio ..Read More

overnor Paterson has vetoed legislation that would have eased rent burdens for poor New Yorkers living with AIDS, many of them formerly-homeless.  And the pundits who urged him to do so should shoulder some of the blame. The legislation limits to 30 percent t ..Read More

Please join in our campaign to urge the Bloomberg administration to help the 2,600 needy families whose housing vouchers were revoked by the City six months ago. Mary Brosnahan, the Coaliton’s executive director, sent the following message to our support ..Read More

UPDATE:  To send a letter urging the Bloomberg administration to help the 2,600 at-risk families, please click here. Back in December, the Bloomberg administration broke a promise to provide housing vouchers to 2,600 needy families. Six months later, the May ..Read More

In a major victory for homeless New Yorkers, New York State Legislators reached an agreement with the Mayor and Governor to eliminate rules forcing homeless families to pay “rent” for shelter, and instead to create a new savings plan. Coalition for ..Read More

The New York Times has a long history of virulent opposition to rent regulation, and its latest “news” article on the subject was predictably full of distortions. While it has been relatively silent on the subject during the past decade, in the 1 ..Read More

As we noted recently, new NYC Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond plans — as he told the New York Times on the day of his appointment — “to import more of the work-based philosophy that dominates the city’s we ..Read More