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As bitter winter weather arrived in the Northeast, New York’s governor issued an executive order requiring the homeless to be forcibly removed from the streets in freezing temperatures, an unprecedented government interjection that faced immediate legal ..Read More

On Sunday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced an executive order that will require all local officials to bring homeless people inside when the temperatures dip below freezing, even against their will. It also requires shelters to extend their hours when ..Read More

City officials said Monday they won’t change a thing in response to Gov. Cuomo’s order to force the homeless off the streets in frigid weather because it’s what they’ve already been doing for more than 20 years. “I don’t see that the governor’s e ..Read More

The streets of New York and other U.S. cities are home to thousands of people who suffer from crippling mental illnesses, and others who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. In January 2015, there were more than 80,000 chronically homeless people in the United S ..Read More

The bedraggled veteran draped in a flag, begging for spare change, has been one of the most persistent images of homelessness in this country. In New York City, however, it is a sight that may be fading from view. Even as city officials have struggled to cope ..Read More

Homeless New Yorkers gave the cold shoulder Sunday to Gov. Cuomo’s order that could force them off the streets when the temperature dips below freezing. “Hell no, I won’t go to a shelter! How’s that even lawful? You can’t force people off a public st ..Read More

As an arctic front barreled toward the New York City region, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed an executive order on Sunday requiring local governments across the state to take homeless people off the streets to shelters in freezing temperatures. The order, which go ..Read More

The homeless crisis Mayor de Blasio inherited – many years in the making – has been exacerbated by skyrocketing housing costs and stagnant wages for low-income families. The Mayor did well in reversing the failed approach of his predecessor by incr ..Read More

Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo could become the first mayor and governor in decades who fail to set aside their differences to jointly fund a housing program for homeless New Yorkers. De Blasio recently announced a new city plan for what’s called suppor ..Read More