Category: CFTH Blog

UPDATE:  To send a letter urging the Bloomberg administration to help the 2,600 at-risk families, please click here. Back in December, the Bloomberg administration broke a promise to provide housing vouchers to 2,600 needy families. Six months later, the May ..Read More

In a major victory for homeless New Yorkers, New York State Legislators reached an agreement with the Mayor and Governor to eliminate rules forcing homeless families to pay “rent” for shelter, and instead to create a new savings plan. Coalition for ..Read More

Yesterday, the Department of Homeless Services held a public hearing on their new proposed guidelines for referring homeless single adults into permanent housing. These new rules are a step forward in preventing the City from referring homeless adults into i ..Read More

There is a political battle brewing in Albany over $1.25. Raising the state’s minimum wagefrom $7.25 to $8.50 is a big deal for our politicians, but it’s an even bigger deal for the one million workers that would be affected. These one million workers mak ..Read More

The New York Times has a long history of virulent opposition to rent regulation, and its latest “news” article on the subject was predictably full of distortions. While it has been relatively silent on the subject during the past decade, in the 1 ..Read More

Mayor Bloomberg has made it clear that he does not support a new bill being considered by the City Council–a bill that would require employers to pay living wages to all workers at city-subsidized projects. This idea would seem to make a lot of sense. W ..Read More

As we noted recently, new NYC Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond plans — as he told the New York Times on the day of his appointment — “to import more of the work-based philosophy that dominates the city’s we ..Read More

A new public opinion survey found strong support for the legal right to shelter for homeless New Yorkers, and for prevention and housing assistance. The survey results were released by the Institute for Children and Poverty in a report entitled, “Stemm ..Read More

A top Agriculture Department official urged the state to discontinue its practice of finger imaging applicants for food stamps–a practice he cited as costly and ineffective. Many advocates have long opposed the policy, saying that it discourages applica ..Read More