Category: CFTH Blog

Today we inaugurate an occasional feature called “Fact vs. Spin,” an attempt to counter some of the false, inaccurate spin about homelessness and housing policy that is, sadly, all-too-often perpetrated by public officials and pundits and then tran ..Read More

Outraged over the plight of the more than 20,000 homeless kids residing in emergency shelter each night, a group of concerned New York City schoolchildren collected over 10,000 signatures on a petition to outgoing Mayor Bloomberg.  They delivered the petition ..Read More

Last night Mayor Bloomberg’s appointees to the Rent Guidelines Board signaled their support for further rent increases affecting half of all rental apartments in New York City — a recipe for more homelessness. As the New York Times and other news ..Read More

For years, New York has continually enforced laws prohibiting loitering as a basis for arresting the homeless and the poor for panhandling, sleeping on the streets, or otherwise being present in a public space, despite the fact that these laws were ruled unco ..Read More

In both life and death, far to many people walked past Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax. But he’ll be remembered for heroically giving his life in an attempt to protect a woman from an attack in the Jamaica section of Queens. The New York Times and other local ne ..Read More

A misinformed blog in the Huffington Post by Covenant House executive director, Jerome Kilbane fails to address the reality of the City’s plan to charge homeless families rent for shelter. Kilbane praises charging rent as a way to save for independent ..Read More

Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to charge homeless families “rent” for shelter has earned national ridicule. Salon magazine featured the Mayor’s plan in their “This Week in Crazy” column. And a Newsweek writer labeled it the & ..Read More

This week the National Low Income Housing Coalition released its yearly report, Out of Reach 2010. The report presents a stunning picture of how truly unaffordable New York is to low-income families–a trend that is also pervasive across the country. The ..Read More

Yesterday, the Commissioner of the Department of Homeless Services, Robert Hess, announced his resignation. His replacement, announced by the Mayor, will be Seth Diamond, who has been working in the Human Resources Administration. His initial statements seem ..Read More