Category: CFTH Blog

The Bloomberg Administration’s non-existent policy response to homelessness is becoming an increasingly expensive problem, according to the Independent Budget Office. Over the last year alone, the number of homeless families has increased by 17 percent, whi ..Read More

Last night on NY1’s Road to City Hall, former NYC Mayor David Dinkins called on the city to focus on the issue of homelessness in the upcoming mayoral election.  Mayor Dinkins underscored that the issue has not been getting enough attention, and that there ..Read More

Superstorm Sandy has devastated New York City, but some of its worst impact has been on New Yorkers who were already living on the edge. Many of the hardest-hit neighborhoods – from Far Rockaway to Red Hook, from Coney Island to Midland Beach in Staten Islan ..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

When new federal data on the prevalence of homelessness was released last week, most news outlets reported that the total homeless population hadn’t increased and that there had been a lessening of the problem among veterans and the chronically homeless ..Read More

Statement by Mary Brosnahan, President of the Coalition for the Homeless: While a new national report estimates that homelessness has stayed level in the U.S. over the last year, it jumped 20% in New York City from October of 2011 to October 2012 – and tha ..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

Today, over 20,000 children go to sleep homeless in New York City. In a thorough piece last week, Alternet reporter Tana Ganeva laid out exactly how the policies of the Bloomberg administration have contributed to this ongoing crisis of family and child ho ..Read More

Graduation Day! November 14th was a very special day for 27 women who graduated from the First Step Job Training Program. After an intense three months of workshops, computer training and an internship, the “First Steppers” were able to celebrate the frui ..Read More