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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
Four Deaths, Four Mysteries: Why Were They on the Street?
After four days, the police were still struggling to identify one of the four homeless men who were brutally killed in Chinatown on Saturday, and questions abounded about how the others ended up sleeping ... 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
Fed Up With De Blasio, Homeless Advocates Revive Sleep-Out Protest At City Hall Park
In the summer of 1988, Chris Henry, a homeless man, was riding the city subways when he noticed a flier advertising an annual "sleep out" protest to call attention to homelessness at City Hall Park. Henry ... Read more
Disappointed in De Blasio, Homeless Advocates Host ‘Sleep Out’ at City Hall
When Mayor Bill de Blasio was elected mayor in 2013, advocates for the homeless saw him as a leader who could bring meaningful change to New York City’s affordable-housing crisis. They were so convinced ... Read more
Advocates for Homeless Camp out at City Hall
A modest gathering inside City Hall Park Thursday evening aimed at raising awareness to New York City’s ongoing homeless crisis and the desperate need for more affordable housing. This was organized ... Read more
Working Homeless Would Be Forced To Save Money Under Controversial NYC Proposal
Homeless advocates and elected officials on Tuesday voiced their opposition to the city’s plan to require working homeless New Yorkers to set aside 30 percent of their paychecks into a government-controlled ... Read more