Housing DisConnect: Fact-Checking Mayor de Blasio’s Claims on Affordable Housing and Homelessness
By Giselle Routhier, Policy Director| Coalition For The Homeless
The most common question asked about New York City’s homelessness crisis is, “How many people are homeless in our city?”| Coalition For The Homeless
By Giselle Routhier, Policy Director| Coalition For The Homeless
The candidates’ views on addressing homelessness in New York City differ vastly, with calls to expand mental health services, overhaul the shelter system and change policing. The post How the N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Plan to Tackle Homelessness appeared first on Coalition For The Homeless.| Coalition For The Homeless
The initiative to resettle asylum seekers outside New York City reached half the targeted number of families. ICE has deported some participants. The post Whatever Happened With the State’s ‘Migrant Relocation’ Program? appeared first on Coalition For The Homeless.| Coalition For The Homeless
This summer marked another busy season for Coalition for the Homeless youth programs. Project: Back to School, Bound for Success, and Camp Homeward Bound touched the lives of thousands of homeless children in shelters across New York City. Project: Back to School: meeting the growing need Our annual backpack distribution reached new heights this year, […] The post Our Youth Programs Over Summer 2025: Wrapping up Project: Back to School, Bound for Success, and Camp Homeward Bound appeared fi...| Coalition For The Homeless
Each year, New York City and state agencies fund tens of thousands of apartments with on-site services for some of the city’s most vulnerable people. But as of June, more than 5,000 of those supportive housing units sat empty. The post To fill empty apartments for homeless people, NYC will first start tracking them appeared first on Coalition For The Homeless.| Coalition For The Homeless
President Donald Trump wants cities and states to force homeless people with mental illness and addiction into treatment facilities. To make that happen, he signed an executive order this summer directing federal agencies to dramatically shift how they fund programs for homeless people… The post A new Trump order could upend the way NYC treats homeless people. Here’s what to know. appeared first on Coalition For The Homeless.| Coalition For The Homeless
Back-to-school season is in full swing across the country, which means summer camp season is coming to a close. For many kids, camps are a home away from home, but for some, they are the only home they know… The post Sleepaway camp Homeward Bound offers New York City homeless kids a place to belong appeared first on Coalition For The Homeless.| Coalition For The Homeless
Mayor Eric Adams said Monday more than 3,500 New Yorkers who were living unsheltered have moved into housing since he took office in 2022… The post Mayor Adams says his administration has housed 3,500 unsheltered New Yorkers appeared first on Coalition For The Homeless.| Coalition For The Homeless
President Trump on Monday announced plans to use the National Guard to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C. Mr. Trump also spoke about the homeless, and suggested New York City could be next… The post NYC homeless advocates react to President Trump’s plan of “getting rid of the slums where they live” appeared first on Coalition For The Homeless.| Coalition For The Homeless
As he runs a long-shot third-party bid for re-election, Mayor Eric Adams is proposing an aggressive approach, favored by conservatives, of combating open drug use. The post Adams Pushes to Force Drug Users Off New York City’s Streets appeared first on Coalition For The Homeless.| Coalition For The Homeless
For the past four decades, the camp, which is run by the nonprofit Coalition for the Homeless, has provided refuge to thousands of the youngest residents of the city’s homeless shelters…| Coalition For The Homeless
The Coalition for the Homeless is the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless individuals in New York City.| www.coalitionforthehomeless.org
Basic facts about homelessness in New York City, including the number of people staying in shelters in the city.| Coalition For The Homeless
As I read the news about the verdict in the Daniel Penny trial, an all too familiar feeling emerged – a feeling of the failure of yet another system to recognize that my life and those of other Black men matter. But this time that feeling was more intense as the verdict validates not only […]| Coalition For The Homeless
