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House Our Future New York Statement In Response to the City Council Introduction of Updated Homeless Housing Bill
Legislation Would Set Aside at Least 15% of Newly Constructed Apartments for the Homeless NEW YORK, NY – The following statement from the House Our Future NY steering committee is in response ... Read more
Homeless Outreach Workers: Nothing We Do Matters Without New Housing
After a homeless man allegedly bludgeoned four other homeless men to death on the streets of Chinatown, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Outreach NYC, a new plan to address the ongoing crisis of street ... Read more
Facing Homeless Crisis, New York Vows 1,000 New Apartments a Year
A law would mandate that affordable-housing projects built with city assistance must have 15 percent of the apartments reserved for the homeless. As New York City grapples with record numbers of homeless ... Read more
Mayor Offers More Homeless Outreach, But Advocates Want More Beds
Could anyone argue against more engagement of the kind Mayor de Blasio unveiled late last month, when he announced plans to enlist 18,000 city workers as the eyes and ears of a rejuvenated effort to identify ... Read more
New York City Homeless-Shelter Residents Bash Food
Homeless shelters across New York City are serving substandard food, a half-dozen shelter residents said Thursday at a City Council hearing. The residents, who have lived in various shelters, compared ... Read more
Leading Advocate Frustrated By Mayor’s Plan For Homelessness
Coalition For The Homeless Policy Director Giselle Routhier spoke to CBSN New York's Cindy Hsu about what's lacking in Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed plan to address the homeless crisis in New York C... Read more
New York to Use 18,000 City Workers to Identify and Help Homeless
New York City will direct more than 18,000 of its municipal workers to use 311 to give social service workers real-time information to help them steer the almost 4,000 people who live on the streets into ... Read more
Manhattan’s CB4 Honored for Compassionate Approach to the Homeless
With homelessness continuing to be a major issue citywide, attention is often paid to communities who are resistant to new shelters coming into their area. But the Coalition for the Homeless is recognizing ... Read more
Rancid, Expired Food Sickening People Across New York City’s Homeless Shelters
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered an investigation after residents of a Brooklyn homeless shelter got sick from eating rancid expired chicken, but that’s not the only shelter ... Read more
One In 10 NYC Students Still Homeless As Crisis Persists
NEW YORK — The last school year was the fourth straight in which New York City's public schools taught more than 100,000 homeless students, according to new data that shows a continuing crisis in the ... Read more
De Blasio Again Brushes Aside Calls for Change to Homeless Housing Approach
Mayor Bill de Blasio brushed aside calls for more affordable housing to tackle homelessness Thursday, saying offering people on the street a place to live would not solve the problem. Activists have ... Read more
Guarantee Every New Yorker a Home
The two of us — one, a formerly homeless, formerly incarcerated New Yorker and the other, the state assemblywoman for the district where the terrible crime took place — began the week at a vigil ... Read more