Author: Patrick Markee

New York laws protecting one million tenant households from eviction and arbitrary rent hikes expire tomorrow, threatening a new wave of homelessness. Now is the time to urge Governor Cuomo and State Legislators to renew — and strengthen — the rent ..Read More

Bloomberg administration officials keep spreading the falsehood that Federal housing programs are not available to help homeless New Yorkers. The reality is that Federal housing aid, though scarce, IS available — and is proven to reduce homelessness. As ..Read More

Mayor Bloomberg and City officials make the absurd claim that the so-called “generosity” of the flawed Advantage program was attracting families to municipal shelters — and unbelievably, they are using this long-discredited myth to justify ..Read More

As the City unveils a sparkling new intake center for homeless families, alarming new data show that last year the Bloomberg administration turned away a record number of families at the shelter door. Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) ..Read More

In what has become an annual ritual, Bloomberg administration officials trumpeted the flawed results of their flawed street homelessness survey to claim that the number of unsheltered homeless people has declined — all the time ignoring indisputable City ..Read More

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released new data confirming that homelessness worsened significantly between 2009 and 2010 in New York City and throughout the rest of the state. Coalition for the Homeless released a briefing paper tod ..Read More

Faced with evidence of record NYC homelessness, Bloomberg administration officials could acknowledge the problem and work on solutions. Or they could resort to denial and attacks on the messenger. Which do you think they’ve chosen? Coalition for the Home ..Read More

Coalition for the Homeless released its annual “State of the Homeless” report today, documenting how NYC homelessness reached all-time record levels during the past year – and outlining a plan to reduce the homeless population. The news relea ..Read More

Mary Brosnahan, Coalition for the Homeless’ Executive Director, sent the following message out today to Coalition supporters urging them to send a message to Mayor Bloomberg: Stop playing politics with the lives of homeless children and families. Dear Co ..Read More