Category: CFTH Blog

The Bloomberg administration has plans to crowd hundreds of homeless men on an armory drill floor in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, a dangerous step backwards to the bad old days of unsafe, overcrowded shelters. Yesterday the New York Times ..Read More

The specific circumstances under which a family may become homeless are unique to the nearly 40,000 individuals that experience it every day in New York City. But there are common themes to the overarching problem, such as low wages, high rents, and joblessnes ..Read More

Despite record homelessness, there is hope. Your support of the Coalition helped steer the City of New York to adopt sensible, housing-based policies and champion the legal rights of our homeless neighbors. This year’s victories include: Reversing the Shelte ..Read More

A guest entry by Tiffany Lange on her experience going through the shelter application process. For almost all of today, Ethan and I were at PATH. PATH stands for “Prevention Assistance Transitional Housing”…which is run by the Department of ..Read More

Yesterday’s New York Times reported on a disturbing problem that we have written about many times before– the complete failure of the City’s Advantage program in reducing and addressing homelessness. We recently received new City data that ..Read More

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