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Every year, thousands of inmates in upstate prisons are granted parole, allowing them to leave prison and return home to New York City. But a NY1 investigation found, more and more, those inmates do not have a home to go to; they go into the shelter system — ..Read More

The Trump administration’s FY 2019 budget once again includes unprecedented cuts to the nation’s housing programs that could have a drastic impact on New York’s affordability crisis and public housing stock if approved, housing advocates say. While they ..Read More

From the windows of a seven-story building on East 151st Street in the Bronx, Manhattan rises like Oz in the distance, a glittering reminder of why so many people want to live in New York City. Inside the building, children sense something is wrong. Their pare ..Read More

The city needs to expand its services for runaway and homeless youth to include young adults ages 24 and younger, whose needs and concerns are often not met by the adult shelter system, advocates and politicians say. ..Read More

With its homeless population already hovering at record levels, New York City would be poised to lose roughly 11 percent of its rental assistance vouchers under President Trump’s proposed fiscal 2019 budget. The president’s recommended funding cut ..Read More

Marco Panchame and Ronald Gantt trudged around a ball field beside the Coney Island Creek, bundled in thick coats emblazoned with the words “Homeless Outreach.” They’re two of the nearly 400 outreach workers whose job is to build trust with people living ..Read More

In recent years, as the city grapples with a lack of affordable housing, New York’s homeless population has soared. According to a 2017 report by Coalition for the Homeless, which has been fighting the city’s homeless crisis since 1981, more than 62,000 me ..Read More

Mayor de Blasio’s touted his affordable housing plan as unprecedented and ambitious — but advocates for the homeless say it’ll barely put a dent in the population of New Yorkers sleeping in shelters. “We have to tie it to what the need is — and that ..Read More

Albany has it tough this year. As a result of declining revenues, the state faces a $4.4 billion budget deficit that Governor Andrew Cuomo hopes he can eliminate by curbing spending growth to 1.8 percent and creating new revenue sources. Changes to federal hea ..Read More