Author: Patrick Markee

It’s rare these days that New York City tenants get good news, but here’s a momentary ray of hope. Marvin Markus, Mayor Bloomberg’s hand-picked chair of the NYC Rent Guidelines Board — who has overseen the highest rent increases for ten ..Read More

Some recent news reports have done more to highlight the plight of homeless day laborers in New York City and on Long Island. As we wrote in a recent blog post, Luis Reyes, a homeless day laborer from Oaxaca, Mexico, was found dead on January 3rd in an abando ..Read More

Last week’s death — probably from exposure — of a homeless day laborer in Staten Island is a grim reminder of the growing ranks of homeless immigrant laborers. As NY1 news and other news organizations reported, 38-year-old Luis Reyes, a day ..Read More

Use of Food Stamps is on the rise in New York City and nationwide, and, because of barriers to vital benefits, many Food Stamps recipients have no other source of income. An alarming report in this past weekend’s New York Times documented how a rising ..Read More

City officials have delivered some harsh holiday news to 3,000 poor and formerly-homeless families: The City will not honor housing vouchers already given to these vulnerable New Yorkers. Last week, in a hastily-organized press conference, City officials revea ..Read More

Welcome to the new, improved, and more-interactive Coalition for the Homeless website! The Coalition’s re-designed website has up-to-date content and new features, including a blog and online advocacy tools to help you get involved. Please take a moment ..Read More

Two recent news reports show how New York’s growing homeless population is impacting people and communities beyond the inner city. Friday’s New York Times included a report about the controversy in a northern Bronx neighborhood surrounding the c ..Read More

As the Coalition warned back in October, the City of New York is running out of shelter beds for the rising number of homeless men and women. Since then, this tragic situation has gone from bad to worse, even before the coldest months of winter have arrived. ..Read More

Mayor Bloomberg said there would be “plenty of time…after the election” to talk about homelessness. With NYC homelessness at all-time record levels, is it time yet? Back on August 10th, according to the New York Daily News’ Daily Polit ..Read More