Category: CFTH Blog

Last week, Coalition for the Homeless and the Legal Aid Society filed a lawsuit against the City of New York for failing to provide adequate shelter to homeless single adults. The City’s response was in no way surprising-they blamed the homeless individu ..Read More

Two recent news reports show how New York’s growing homeless population is impacting people and communities beyond the inner city. Friday’s New York Times included a report about the controversy in a northern Bronx neighborhood surrounding the c ..Read More

As the Coalition warned back in October, the City of New York is running out of shelter beds for the rising number of homeless men and women. Since then, this tragic situation has gone from bad to worse, even before the coldest months of winter have arrived. ..Read More

Mayor Bloomberg said there would be “plenty of time…after the election” to talk about homelessness. With NYC homelessness at all-time record levels, is it time yet? Back on August 10th, according to the New York Daily News’ Daily Polit ..Read More

As recently reported in the Huffington Post, a new study done by Health People reports that New York City’s progress in reducing death rates among residents with HIV/AIDS in the Bronx and Brooklyn has collapsed since 2006–the year the Bloomberg ..Read More

December 5th marks an important anniversary: Thirty years since the first landmark court ruling in Callahan v. Carey affirming the legal right to shelter for homeless New Yorkers. When modern homelessness first emerged in the late 1970s, the City of New York ..Read More

How many New Yorkers are guilty of walking past a homeless man or woman on the streets and pretending not to see them? As reported on CNN today, Mark Horvath, a formerly homeless man has set out to use technology to combat the invisibility of the homeless and ..Read More

The front page of Sunday’s New York Times was a stark reminder of the harsh impact of the current economic downturn: One in eight Americans now uses Food Stamps to supplement their food budget, and the number of Food Stamps recipients is rising rapidl ..Read More

Two weeks ago, as reported in the New York Times, four men died in two separate fires in Queens and Brooklyn in homes that had been illegally converted to an occupancy much higher than legally allowed. In today’s paper, a follow-up article reiterated ..Read More