State of the Homeless 2018 Posted on March 14, 2018 by Nicole Edine Homelessness Continues to Reach Record Highs as Mayor’s Housing Plan Fails to Address the City’s Urgent Needs NEW YORK, NY -The Coalition for the Homeless released today its 2018 State of the Homeless report, Fate of a Generation: How the City and State Ca ..Read More
New Report Finds City’s Housing Plan Leaves Posted on January 31, 2018 by Nicole Edine Record Overall Housing Production Will Make Only Modest Impact on Homelessness, ‘Moment of Truth’ Shows NEW YORK – A new report from the Coalition for the Homeless released today shows that despite record levels of affordable housing preservation a ..Read More
Coalition for the Homeless Responds to Governor Cu Posted on January 4, 2018 by Sarah Murphy Compassion is Good. Fix the Shelters, Don’t Arrest the Homeless Governor Cuomo today reminded New Yorkers that record homelessness is not acceptable and that it is our job as a compassionate society to reach out and help homeless people on the streets. We ag ..Read More
Coalition for the Homeless Statement on Homeless C Posted on December 21, 2017 by Nicole Edine NEW YORK, NY – Roughly 63,000 New Yorkers, including nearly 24,000 children, will spend this holiday season in homeless shelters. Thousands more will bed down on the frigid streets. Homelessness in New York City is now at its highest level since the Great De ..Read More
Coalition for the Homeless Statement in Response t Posted on December 12, 2017 by Nicole Edine “Today’s announcement is a very positive step toward the laudable goal of eliminating the use of cluster sites and converting these apartments into permanent housing for homeless New Yorkers, as advocates and experts have long called for. The potential use ..Read More
Mayor de Blasio, Wake Up and Build a Solution to H Posted on November 24, 2017 by Nicole Edine in New York Daily News Mayor de Blasio won re-election handily, promising in his victory speech to make New York City the fairest city in America. It’s a bold vision — one he’s soon going to make a trip to Iowa to try to sell on the national stage. But with 62,000 homeless New ..Read More
Letter to the Editor: De Blasio Turns Bloomberg Posted on October 23, 2017 by Nicole Edine in New York Daily News It was disturbing and disappointing to see the mayor touting his Bloomberg-style change of course to make it harder for homeless families to gain access to lifesaving shelters (“Meet the new Bill de Blasio,” editorial, Oct. 18), a policy that seems predica ..Read More
Colin Kaepernick Generously Donates $25,000 to Coa Posted on September 15, 2017 by Nicole Edine “I will donate one million dollars plus all the proceeds of my jersey sales from the 2016 season to organizations working in oppressed communities, 100k a month for 10 months.” – Colin Kaepernick Nearly a year ago Colin Kaepernick pledged to donate on ..Read More
The City Council’s Fair Share Bill is Unfair Posted on August 23, 2017 by Nicole Edine in City & State New York Slant New Yorkers understand that homelessness is a serious problem: 93 percent say it is a very serious (69 percent) or serious (24 percent) problem, according to a May 2017 Quinnipiac University poll. We notice that there are more people on the streets and we feel ..Read More
