Category: News

During the nascent Trump era, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The president’s choice to run the agency, neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate Ben Carson, has been criticized by housing ..Read More

For New Yorkers looking to rally behind a cause—who may also be new to the world of organizing—there is no shortage of local advocacy groups that need your help. These five organizations, like many others doing similar work in New York, support large commu ..Read More

While many New Yorkers stayed home during Tuesday’s snowstorm, others less fortunate needed shelter from the storm. The city dispatched 116 outreach workers as the last blast of winter blew into town, and they connected 60 homeless people stuck on the street ..Read More

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration plans to extend for 60 days a statewide emergency regulation that requires the homeless be sheltered when it’s 32 degrees or colder outside. The extension will be filed Wednesday, the day the original emergency regulation ..Read More

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a major speech on homelessness on Tuesday, promoting a plan he calls “Turning the Tide.” This was interesting because, as we know, not even kings can turn tides. If he had called it “Lowering Expectations” or “Treading Water ..Read More

In the same week that Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to open 90 new homeless shelters in New York City over the next five years, City Council legislation could limit his ability to do so, according to advocates for the homeless. The bill would prohibit ..Read More

A Queens Assemblyman’s plan to crack down on the city homeless crisis has managed to unite affordable housing advocates and landlords. The Rent Stabilization Association, the city’s largest landlord organization, Friday threw its support behind the ..Read More

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s declaration that the best New York City could do to reduce the ranks of homeless people in its shelters was to move 2,500 out over five years is rallying advocates and some elected officials behind a plan now working its way through th ..Read More

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new plan to tackle the skyrocketing homeless population across the city includes an expanded effort to keep at-risk New Yorkers in their homes through rental assistance programs, he said Tuesday. The various rental assistance progr ..Read More