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Nearly 400 homeless people have come in off the streets since bitterly cold temperatures set in Saturday, Mayor de Blasio said. There have been no known deaths related to the cold. City teams brought 105 people to homeless shelters, all but one of them volunta ..Read More

On the February 13, 2016 edition of The New York Times Close Up, hosted by Clyde Haberman, Times Critic at Large Wesley Morris describes Divisive and Diverse, though not at the same time: one is for the cover story in this Sunday’s Arts and Leisure secti ..Read More

Following his issuance of a Code Blue warning on Friday, and in an apparent effort to walk the walk, Mayor de Blasio took to the subway over the weekend and urged at least two homeless men to go to a shelter. “You deserve better than sleeping in a subway ..Read More

Gov. Cuomo on Sunday announced a new state undercover program designed to root out discrimination in home rental and sales. “Discrimination in housing is not just immoral, it’s not just wrong, it’s not just unethical, it’s also illegal, ..Read More

Over the past few weeks, thousands of clipboard-toting volunteers have fanned out across some of the nation’s largest cities, tasked with a deceptively complex job: counting the number of homeless people sleeping on the streets. They’ve had to do i ..Read More

On a recent Thursday morning in Bronx Housing Court, Chidera Atuegbu, an attorney for tenants, scanned a packed, noisy hallway. She could not find her client, nor could she locate opposing counsel in her client’s case. “Rappaport! Rappaport!” ..Read More

New York City is experiencing a homeless crisis. Overnight, city and federal officials joined more than 3,000 volunteers to conduct the yearly HOPE count to determine how many people are living on the streets. HOPE stands for Homeless Outreach Population Estim ..Read More

After making progress in reducing homelessness among veterans, the Obama administration is turning to the larger and more complicated challenge of homelessness among families with young children. In his 2017 budget, to be presented on Tuesday, President Obama ..Read More

Over the next two days, the City Council will debate two rezoning proposals introduced by the Mayor de Blasio’s administration: Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) and Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA). Both proposals are part of the mayor̵ ..Read More