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New York City’s hoteliers — faced with empty rooms and looming tax bills — are ready and willing to help house the homeless during the coronavirus crisis, an industry spokesman told the Daily News. The city’s not yet ready to expand its current hotel p ..Read More

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo began his April 28 press conference stressing that, in order to expertly navigate the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, people needed to distance themselves from their emotions. “Separate the emotion from the logic,” he said before a ..Read More

A new city plan to move 1,000 homeless adults per week out of shelters and into hotel rooms still has some issues to address, say advocates who have monitored the first phase of the city’s gradual effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus inside its shelt ..Read More

Homeless advocates are calling on the city and state to proactively test New Yorkers in the shelter system for the coronavirus, but testing capacity in the five boroughs remains scant. The Coalition for the Homeless and several other organizations sent a lette ..Read More

NEW YORK – The lights still scream for attention, but on this night Times Square has the feel of an abandoned Hollywood film set. Gone are the hordes of tourists shooting selfies with Elmo and Wonder Woman. Instead, a lone SUV glides by and a passenger� ..Read More

State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi and state Senator Brian Kavanagh, joined by a coalition of state and local elected officials and other New York leaders, are calling on Congress to include $100 billion in additional stimulus funding — with $10 billion for New ..Read More

In early March, as Covid-19 cases began to surface across the country, activists were warning that the virus would wreak havoc within homeless populations. Now, more than a month after shelter-in-place orders have been in effect in most major cities, ..Read More

The New York City doctors and nurses charged with handling a huge epidemic have another problem to deal with: The city’s moving too slowly to keep homeless patients safe. A group of more than 500 New York-based physicians, social workers, and nurses, wro ..Read More

New York City will ask developers of nearly completed affordable housing projects to increase the number of apartments set aside for homeless New Yorkers, who are at high risk of contracting COVID-19, according to the city’s housing agency and a letter obtai ..Read More