Author: Patrick Markee

Yesterday the Coalition released “State of the Homeless 2013,” which documents how, for the first time ever, more than 50,000 homeless New Yorkers are sleeping each night in municipal shelters – a shocking 61 percent increase since Mayor Bloomberg to ..Read More

The State of the Homeless 2013 report is available here (PDF).  Following is the news release: For Immediate Release:  March 5, 2013 50,000: Homeless Count Crosses Grim Milestone In Bloomberg’s Final Year Legacy of Policy Failures Presents Major Chall ..Read More

Hurricane Sandy evacuees, New York City Council Members, and advocates held a press conference at City Hall today to present a blueprint for dealing with the post-Sandy housing crisis. The blueprint can be downloaded here. Below is the news release issued at t ..Read More

Tonight the City conducts its annual HOPE survey of unsheltered homeless New Yorkers. And once again, the survey’s numerous flaws mean that the resulting estimate will undercount the homeless population and misinform the general public. As we’ve written in ..Read More

This week’s arctic cold is a reminder that, during extreme weather conditions, lack of shelter from the elements can literally be a death sentence. Nonetheless, Mayor Bloomberg and his administration continue to push forward a plan to deny emergency shelter ..Read More

This week the New York Post published perhaps one of the most bizarre opinion pieces about NYC homelessness ever written. The op-ed makes the wacky claim that New York City has made “huge strides on homelessness,” despite the all-time record high number ..Read More

Our thoughts go out to the family of Jon Kest, community organizer extraordinaire and longtime Coalition ally, and his daughter Jessie Streich-Kest, a teacher and activist who died during Hurricane Sandy. Jon Kest was, simply put, the premier NYC community org ..Read More

Thousands of people have been displaced and made homeless by Hurricane Sandy, many low-income families and individuals. Weeks later, the City’s efforts to shelter storm evacuees have grown increasingly chaotic. Staff and volunteers from Coalition for the Hom ..Read More

Hurricane Sandy has devastated homeless New Yorkers, whose numbers were at record-high levels before the storm. And even with the City’s successful efforts to prevent immediate harm to homeless shelter residents, the long-term impacts will be incalculable. E ..Read More