Category: CFTH Blog

Two articles in today’s news illustrate misguided City policies and underreporting of homeless numbers. An article in today’s Daily News brings to light an issue we wrote about back in February–the City’s continual misrepresentation o ..Read More

As the holiday season in New York is in full swing, I met a seven year-old girl named Sydney. Sydney lived in one of New York’s family shelters with her mom and younger sister. As is the case with many homeless families, her mom lost her job, fell behind ..Read More

In August of this year, Pamela Yearwood and her five young children were placed in an apartment under the Advantage program. The City’s Department of Homeless Services inspected the apartment and found it to be livable, but just a few weeks after moving ..Read More

Check out our expanded Advocacy Document Library, to which we have added more information about your rights as a New York City shelter resident and your rights regarding placements in permanent housing. We’ve added or updated three new sections: Know Yo ..Read More

The number of homeless single adults in the New York City shelter system has drastically risen over the past year, defying usual trends and reaching a level not seen in over two decades. The average nightly shelter census for single adult men and women in Octo ..Read More

City data shows that, even in the midst of the lingering economic crisis, the City is denying shelter to homeless families at a higher rate. As we noted in an earlier post, yesterday’s New York City Council hearing highlighted the fact that, from March ..Read More

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

Join the Coalition for the Homeless with co-chairs Alec Baldwin, Richard Gere, and Carey Lowell on November 4th for the 16th Annual ARTWALK NY! Artist Honoree: James Rosenquist Philanthropic Honoree: Gail and Al Engelberg Skylight Studio 275 Hudson Street New ..Read More