Homeless advocates rally to defend right to shelter in New York City Posted on December 5, 2023 by CBS News in CBS News A coalition of city and community leaders is fighting against efforts to roll back the legal requirement. ..Read More
Lawmakers, advocates for homeless rally to defend Right to Shelter law in NYC Posted on December 5, 2023 by Lauren Glassberg in ABC7 Eyewitness News NEW YORK (WABC) -- Lawmakers and advocates for the homeless turned out for a rally in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday to defend the Right to Shelter law... ..Read More
City’s right to shelter faces uncertain future as winter nears, advocates say Posted on December 4, 2023 by Nick Garber in Crain's New York ..Read More
Homeless advocates to rally in Manhattan to defend controversial ‘right to shelter’ law Posted on December 5, 2023 by Julia Joseph and Adolfo Carrion in News 12 Brooklyn Concerned New Yorkers and advocates filled Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan on Tuesday morning, begging the city and state to keep the Right to Shelter Law alive. ..Read More
Helping Homeless People Who Are Mentally Ill Posted on November 28, 2023 by Dave Giffen in The New York Times “Behind Acts of Violence, Years of Mistakes” (front page, Nov. 21) effectively underscores the decades of neglect, underfunding and mismanagement that have made New York’s mental health system such a resounding failure for so many people in our city... ..Read More
NYC expands 30-day stay limits to single adult migrants in DHS shelters Posted on November 13, 2023 by Arya Sundaram in Gothamist The Adams administration, looking to free up space in the city's beleaguered shelter system, will begin sending notices Monday to single adult migrants in Department of Homeless Services accommodations directing them to leave within 30 days. ..Read More
Mayor Adams weighs in on migrant crisis at Floyd Bennett Field as families refuse to stay Posted on November 13, 2023 by Eyewitness News in ABC Eyewitness News MARINE PARK, Brooklyn -- Only 13 migrant families decided to stay at the newly opened shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. ..Read More
Is NYC’s Mayor Playing into Anti-Immigrant Sentiment? Posted on November 9, 2023 by Isaiah Thompson in Nonprofit Quarterly ..Read More
Op-Ed | New York City can start addressing the migrant emergency by cutting government red tape Posted on November 8, 2023 by Diana Ayala and Rhonda Jackson in AMNY Since January 2023, New York City has taken in 95,000 migrants. Their arrival has spurred countless debates on a national scale surrounding New York’s shelter capacity and the city’s ability to provide housing for this growing population. ..Read More
