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"A rental assistance program cannot prevent homelessness if administrative problems lead to the very evictions it was designed to avoid."

A supportive housing provider will have to help its tenants pursue other financial remedies before it pursues an eviction, per a settlement agreement.

Losing supportive housing can return low-income New Yorkers to homelessness, destabilizing their health and lives.

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It’s a bit of a hackneyed trope that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Yet, here we are again, hearing angry calls for aggressive...

While New York is talking about homeless encampments on the outskirts of the Intrepid Museum, those who work in the heart of the city say Times Square and

“The 2026 HOPE Count shows more New Yorkers sleeping on streets and in subways, and that number should alarm every official in this city. It also, almost certainly, understates the crisis.

Statement from David Giffen, Executive Director, Coalition for the Homeless, on the FY2027 Budget Agreement and CityFHEPS Settlement: “After years of advocacy by the Coalition and many partners and a ...

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The mayor made a brief appearance at the city’s last remaining large-scale migrant shelter Tuesday. “Here it’s like a prison. Here it’s like Delaney Hall,” one migrant told The City Reporter.

Some lawmakers are considering a “no” vote on any budget deal that doesn’t include a significant expansion of the city’s housing voucher program, CityFHEPS.

The bill requires all shelters to provide high-speed broadband internet service.

The Coalition for the Homeless said people seeking shelter who are not asylum seekers grew between 2022 and 2025.

Nearly 195,000 people slept in DHS shelters in 2025, the most in system’s history Coalition urges Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul to expand CityFHEPS, replace expiring federal vouchers, and invest i...

State of the Homeless 2026 A Crisis Inherited, A Choice Ahead Download report Table of Contents Executive Summary I. Introduction II. Magnitude of New York City’s Housing and Homelessness Crisis III. ...

Today, Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director David Giffen issued the following statement in response to the City’s Block by Block housing plan: “New York City cannot solve homelessness without...

The two new locations are in Crown Heights and Flatbush.

As Federal Emergency Housing Vouchers Expire, Failure to Act Will Push 5,500 Households Out of Their Homes and Into Homelessness As state budget negotiations are finalized, Governor Hochul must suppor...

The city notified two Brooklyn community boards that it will be converting hotels to new shelters for single adult men, stating that they needed to offset lost capacity from the planned closure of the...

The city notified two Brooklyn community boards that it will be converting hotels to new shelters for single adult men, stating that they needed to offset lost capacity from the planned closure of the...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to move the primary shelter intake facility for men forced the city to quickly relocate hundreds of homeless people.

Dozens of affordable housing advocates gathered Wednesday outside Gracie Mansion, the Mayor’s waterside residence, to protest Zohran Mamdani’s decision to backpedal on his campaign promise to expand a...