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A group calling for more apartments for the homeless criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday for delaying the state’s plans for $2 billion in affordable housing money, which was earmarked this spring as part of the state budget. In April, the governor signed ..Read More

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo said Thursday he does not expect a deal to dole out the full $2 billion in affordable housing money agreed to in the current state budget until next year. Cuomo has been under pressure by affordable housing advocates to cut a deal as quic ..Read More

For the second week in a row, homeless people and advocates protested outside of Gov. Cuomo’s Third Ave. office, demanding he follow through on his pledge to spend $1.9 billion on 20,000 units of supportive housing. Around 50 protesters urged Cuomo to cu ..Read More

They sleep in cars, shelters, or trailer parks or doubled up in bedrooms, but thanks to new guidance from the U.S. Department of Education, America’s 1.3 million homeless students should soon find it easier to enroll and succeed in the nation’s public scho ..Read More

A record number of single adults are homeless in New York City. On a given night, 14,222 single adults ― meaning they are not part of a family ― seek out homeless shelters in NYC, Giselle Routhier, policy director for the Coalition for the Homeless, told T ..Read More

Beauty has seizures, and she worries about what she’ll be doing when the next one occurs. She was lucky with the first: she was in bed asleep next to her boyfriend, who woke to the bed shaking and was quick to pry his 24-year-old girlfriend’s jaw open to p ..Read More

New York City and communities across New York state are struggling with a devastating crisis. Roughly 60,000 New Yorkers confront homelessness every night in our city – and that number increases to more than 80,000 statewide. In January, faced with images of ..Read More

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo haphazardly deemed that all of the homeless must be taken off the streets when temperatures dropped below freezing last winter, he created confusion. Some localities said they weren’t prepared and didn’t have the resources to honor a ..Read More

By a handful of indicators—unemployment rates, overall economic growth, even average hourly earnings—the U.S. economy isn’t doing so badly right now. And yet, when it comes to the number of Americans who go hungry, it’s almost like the recovery never h ..Read More