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A bevy of city and state officials—as well as former Council Speaker and Cuomo aide Christine Quinn—were on hand to fling the ceremonial first shovelfuls of dirt for a new 160-unit complex for homeless and low-income families, one funded in part through a ..Read More

New York City has agreed to improve its homeless shelters and offer more training to shelter staff so deaf and hearing impaired residents and applicants can get the aids and services they need. Under settlement agreements filed Monday in the Eastern District c ..Read More

With over 58,000 people in our shelter system every night, and thousands more sleeping on the streets, concern about homelessness in New York City has reached a fever pitch. We must attack this challenge on every front: through construction of more housing wit ..Read More

As New York City’s shelter population continues to hover near historic levels, another factor that’s a known predictor of homelessness is also on the rise: Crowding. City residents are living in increasingly crowded quarters and a combination of fa ..Read More

How many tax dollars are needed to house people who are homeless in New York City? A report released today from the New York City Independent Budget Office focused on the growing cost for housing homeless families and single adults and found shelter costs incr ..Read More

New York City bears the cost of housing homeless single adults almost entirely on its own, a shift from the recent past, in which the state shouldered a much larger share of the burden, a new report from the Independent Budget Office finds. The funding decreas ..Read More

Walter Simpson calls the framed family pictures that decorate his living room wall, the “wall of fame.” There’s his niece, his mom, and an aunt who has since passed away. Simpson has lived in a two-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn ..Read More

Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, a designer and programmer by trade. He created his interactive art piece, “Wage Islands” by using the median monthly housing cost data in New York City, sourced from the American Community survey. Wage Islands is simple, yet dazz ..Read More

Nearly two years after taking office, Mayor de Blasio held what his office billed as the first traditional townhall meeting of his mayoralty Wednesday — but its format had some critics accusing him of hosting a political pep rally. About 250 people attended ..Read More