There are More Children Sleeping in NYC Homeless Shelters Than Ever Posted on March 19, 2015 by Rebecca Fishbein in Gothamist The city saw a record number of homeless people sleeping in municipal shelters last year, with one in 43 New York City children spending at least one night in a shelter, according to the Coalition for the Homeless’s annual State of the Homeless report. ..Read More
Report Finds Number of Homeless in New York Rising Posted on March 19, 2015 by NY1 News in NY1 A new report found more city residents have no place to call home. The Coalition for the Homeless released its annual State of the Homeless report. The group says Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to move 5,000 families per year from shelters into stable housi ..Read More
New York City Sees Record Number of Children in Homeless Shelters Posted on March 19, 2015 by Laila Kearney in Reuters More than 25,000 children stayed at New York City homeless shelters on an average night in 2014, setting a new record, according to an advocacy group report released on Thursday. The city on average has more than 60,000 homeless people each night staying at sh ..Read More
Coalition for the Homeless Demands More From Cuomo Posted on March 19, 2015 by Will Bredderman in The New York Observer The Coalition for the Homeless today released a report indicating a exploding population of the indigent—and insisted the solution was Gov. Andrew Cuomo to commit to creating 30,000 new units of supportive housing and allocating more money for emergency rent ..Read More
New York City on Track to Reduce Homelessness: Report Posted on March 19, 2015 by Mirela Iverac in WNYC Homelessness has increased since Mayor de Blasio took office, but the tide is starting to turn, according to an annual report being released Thursday by the Coalition for the Homeless, the city’s leading advocacy group for the homeless. ..Read More
Record Number of New Yorkers Sleeping in Shelters Posted on March 19, 2015 in News 12 The Bronx An annual report shows that a record number of New Yorkers is sleeping in city shelters each night. The Coalition for the Homeless released the latest version of its report, which estimates that there at 60,000 people who rely on a shelter. That number is up f ..Read More
NYC Homeless Shelters See Record High Number of Children in 2014 Posted on March 19, 2015 by Erin Durkin in New York Daily News A record-high 42,000 kids slept in a city homeless shelter last year — including 1 in 17 of New York’s black children, a report to be released Thursday found. Overall, one in 43 city children were among the 116,000 people forced into shelters during the ye ..Read More
Homeless Mom in Queens Shelter Talks Challenges of Finding a Stable Place to Live With Daughter Posted on March 19, 2015 by Caitlin Nolan and Erin Durkin in New York Daily News Jessica Pendergrass huddled in the wind with her 12-year-old daughter, her eyes red from crying as they waited for a place to spend the night. “I’m homeless, me and my daughter,” said Pendergass – like 116,000 other New Yorkers including 42,000 chi ..Read More
How New York’s Massive Homeless Population Endured Winter 2015 Posted on March 17, 2015 by John Surico in Vice Several homeless men tell me subway cars would regularly be filled at night with those temporarily escaping blizzard after blizzard—at least until the morning commute. “It’s a major resource for us, so without it, I don’t know what to do,&# ..Read More
