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New York Post

Half of NYC’s homeless domestic-violence victims feel unsafe in shelters

Half of homeless domestic-violence victims feel unsafe in city shelters, according to a new survey that critics say highlights the failure of the de Blasio administration to address a growing crisis…

City Limits

Opinion: Bring Humanity to the Fight Against Homelessness

As one of the wealthiest cities in the world, New York City has long battled the tragic irony of homelessness among its residents – the indignity of those sleeping on the street or in the ever-rising numbers of families and children in shelters…

Gothamist

Six Months In, Critics Say De Blasio’s Strategy To Help Homeless In Subways Isn’t Working

New York City Councilmembers are criticizing a controversial de Blasio administration program that gives New Yorkers living in the subway the choice between receiving a police summons and going to a homeless shelter or engaging with outreach providers…

Gothamist

Deaths Of Homeless New Yorkers Jump Nearly 40 Percent, According To New Report

Between July of 2018 and June of last year, 404 people considered homeless in New York City died. Those deaths represent a 39 percent increase over the prior year, the largest year over year increase in a decade…

NYC’s Biggest Shelter Plagued By Asbestos And Other Dangers

The day after the Fourth of July, 2018, the city evacuated eight homeless men from their beds at Manhattan’s 30th Street Men’s Shelter and moved them elsewhere inside the cavernous facility…

City Limits

Thousands of NYC’s Homeless Parents were Recently Kids Themselves

Maria was 19 years old when she gave birth to her first daughter and brought the new baby from the hospital to a tiny room in a Harlem family shelter…

City Limits

A Walk With Mayor de Blasio’s Street Homelessness Outreach Workers

The walk started on Grand Street and then, a few blocks later, the outreach team headed north on Allen Street, carefully scanning the area for homeless individuals on a cold and windy Monday morning…

New York Times

NYC to spend as much as $41 million to buy more run-down buildings to house homeless

Ashley Taliercio and her two children have been in their Harlem apartment for three months, but it feels like years…

Gothamist

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 homelessness in the city…

City Limits

NYC Has a Family Homelessness Crisis. Who are the Families?

For months, Rosa Maria Febo and her daughter took two trains and a bus to get from a Howard Beach hotel to an elementary school in Harlem…

New York Times

Attack student homelessness now: With numbers surging in shelter system, families with children must be affordable housing priority

There are 114,085 students living in New York City without a home of their own. They wake up every day in a shelter, move every 30 days between hotel rooms, or live doubled up with family or friends…

Homeless Youth Age Into Adulthood Still Waiting For Housing Aid Promised In 2017

Mayor Bill de Blasio promised homeless youth in early 2017 they would soon gain access to the same housing vouchers their elders get to help them pay rent on their own apartments. Nyella Love is still waiting…

NY1

Over 100,000 Homeless: How to Combat a Crisis Among New York City Students

Errol Louis discussed the homelessness crisis in the city’s public schools with two advocates, Raysa Rodriguez, of the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, and Randi Levine, of Advocates for Children…

From Shelter To Home To Street: One Man’S Homeless Struggle

By official measure of the city Department of Homeless Services, Karim Walker is a success story because he landed a permanent apartment after living in a shelter. Yet just two years later, he’s sleeping in subways and spending days in Manhattan libraries…

New York Times

114,000 Students in N.Y.C. Are Homeless. These Two Let Us Into Their Lives

Darnell, 8, lives in a homeless shelter and commutes 15 miles a day to school. Sandivel shares a bedroom with her mother and four brothers. She is 10 and has moved seven times in the past five years…

How Shelter Chaos Drives Many Homeless To Live On Streets And In Subways

The night Jeffrey Wolford came in off the frigid sidewalk seeking warmth in Manhattan’s 30th Street Men’s Shelter last winter, it was too late to get a bed. He was assigned a plastic chair, alongside 20 other men already dozing in the city’s biggest shelter, a major intake center for homeless people…

New York Times

New York seeking ways to help homeless veterans and increase services for those who served

New York is stepping up its efforts to help homeless vets. A measure calling for a report to be completed by state agencies to determine the number of homeless veterans in the state was signed into law Monday by Gov. Cuomo…

NY1

Homeless Not Nameless

How four men lived and lost their lives on the streets of Chinatown…

Crains

It’s time to value women’s work

New York City is suffering from a record homelessness crisis, which has disproportionately affected women and their children. At Win, the city’s largest provider of family shelter, over 90% of our families are headed by women…

Gothamist

City Council Speaker Pushing Bill Requiring Developers To Set Aside Housing For Homeless

Leading up to a possible showdown with the de Blasio administration, the City Council is preparing to vote on a plan that would require city-funded developers to allot 15 percent of any created or preserved rental units for those living in the city’s shelter system…

New York Times

Advocates demand City Hall pony up more money to end homelessness

More than a hundred advocates for the homeless visited City Hall on Friday to warn that the city’s jail reform plan will fail unless the city improves its treatment of those without permanent shelter…

Gotham Gazette

To End the Homelessness Crisis It’s Time to Refocus the City’s Housing Plan – Here’s How

More than 61,000 men, women, and children will sleep in New York City shelters tonight, and this historic homelessness crisis will continue to devastate the lives of even more people unless Mayor de Blasio embraces the common sense plans that we have put forward from a City Council office and the Coalition for the Homeless, respectively…

New York Post

De Blasio orders review of mental health programs after latest homeless attack

Mayor Bill de Blasio is ordering a “30-day review” of the city’s mental health intervention programs and Kendra’s Law — which gives judges the power to force mentally ill people to undergo psych treatment — after yet another deeply disturbing attack by a homeless person…

WSJ

Killings Show Limits of New York’s Homeless Outreach

In the weeks before Randy Santos allegedly bludgeoned four homeless men to death in Manhattan, he was sleeping in an abandoned building on East 183rd Street in the Bronx…

New York Times

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 on the streets where they lost their lives…

Homeless Seek An Elusive Safe Refuge In The Subways

The beating deaths of four homeless men sleeping on the streets of Chinatown early Saturday shocked the city. But for some New Yorkers without a permanent home, the killings confirmed an unease that has them avoiding city streets and shelters overnight, afraid for their safety…

Politico

De Blasio defends handling of mentally ill homeless in wake of brutal attacks

Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his administration’s handling of mentally ill people living on the street Tuesday, as police revealed that the man accused of beating four homeless men to death in Chinatown is also suspected of attacking another man a week earlier…

WSJ

Proposed Bill Aims to Combat Overdoses at New York Homeless Shelters

Homeless shelters would have to increase the level of on-site medical care they provide opioid-addicted clients under a bill being considered by the New York City Council…

Subway Surveillance Cameras Turned Toward The Homeless

The NYPD has begun monitoring more than 100 live camera feeds at a dozen subway stations as part of what City Hall calls ramped-up efforts to address homelessness…

WSJ

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…

Crains

Why the city gets gouged on homeless shelters

The recent brouhahas over siting homeless shelters across the city demonstrate how little people really understand about the economics of it…

City Limits

Opinion: Success of Mayor’s Housing Plan Proves We Can Do More for Homeless NYers

The de Blasio administration just announced that its Housing New York affordable housing plan has financed over 135,000 permanent housing units since the mayor took office in 2014…

Gotham Gazette

Addressing the Growing Problem of Senior Homelessness

The conversation around affordable housing in New York largely focuses on ensuring that working people can continue to live here…

City Limits

Mixed Feelings About Mandatory Savings for NYC Homeless

The city is proposing a savings program where employed homeless persons who reside in a shelter will be mandated to hand over nearly a third of their earned monthly income…

Halfway Into Homeless Revamp, Work Lags As Hotel Use Grows

Halfway through Mayor Bill de Blasio’s five-year plan to overhaul the city’s sprawling homeless shelter system, work is running behind and hotels are packed with New Yorkers who have nowhere to go…

Gotham Gazette

City to Launch 5 Cross-Agency Projects to Fight Poverty-Related Challenges

The five projects, overseen and funded by the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, cut across city agencies and involve a diverse set of goals: increasing school attendance for students in temporary housing…

New York Times

Shuffled Among Homeless Shelters, and Not Told Why

Patrice Joseph believed she was singled out when she complained about cigarette smoke and plumbing problems at the homeless shelter where she and her teenage son and daughter lived in Jamaica, Queens…

City Limits

What’s it Like Growing Older in the NYC Homeless Shelter System?

Alvin Peterson, a 63-year-old resident of Samaritan Village’s homeless shelter on East 53rd Street, was having trouble breathing last December…

New York Times

New York’s Toughest Homeless Problem

They are the most visible sign of New York’s homelessness crisis: A man covered in dirt sits outside a subway station in Jamaica, Queens. Another man, cross-legged and ragged on a Midtown sidewalk, begs for money. A dozen people form an encampment in Central Park…

A Quiet Welcome For Homeless Women, Blocks From Billionaire’S Row Shelter Site

Just blocks away from the planned Billionaires’ Row shelter that’s sparked a raucous legal battle, another refuge for the homeless is getting a quiet welcome. The 120-bed Hell’s Kitchen facility, to be run by Care for the Homeless, will cater to women in need of mental health services, with an on-site clinic and case managers. It’s located on a mostly residential block on West 52nd Street, sandwiched between an apartment building and an elementary school…

NYC Youth Homeless Services Have ‘Significant Gaps,’ New Report Finds

Roughly 4,600 young people in New York City below the age of 25 are spending their nights on the streets or in a homeless shelter. Despite that substantial population, a first-of-its-kind study has determined the city’s services are “fragmented” and suffer from a “lack of ownership and accountability,” according to a city-commissioned study…

Gotham Gazette

Where We Work, ThriveNYC is Helping Families and Getting Homeless Children to School

Questions have been raised recently about the cost and achievements of the ThriveNYC mental health initiative. This is no surprise: big, high-profile, efforts like ThriveNYC have always been susceptible to such criticisms… This is unfortunate, because in our experience, ThriveNYC provides critical new funding for skilled staff positions essential to our efforts to improve the quality of services to homeless families…

WIN

Forgotten Face of Homelessness: Housing Instability

The path to housing stability is seldom straight. It’s jagged. And that’s true for a reason: our city is experiencing the worst housing instability crisis in its history. We can no longer ignore the links between our city’s surging homelessness crisis and its declining stock of quality, affordable housing…

WIN

Win’s Homelessness in NYC Survey

A recent survey about perceptions of homelessness in New York City by Win, conducted by HarrisX, reveals that New York City residents nearly unanimously agree that we must do more to solve the problem of homelessness in New York City – a majority have seen the problem worsen, and few predict improvement…

New York Times

Thousands of CUNY students experience homelessness and food insecurity, report says

Students at the City University of New York are often homeless and have trouble finding food, according to a study to be published Wednesday…

New York Times

City says Cuomo budget cuts will harm homeless and burden taxpayers in five boroughs

The head of the City Department of Social Services and advocates want Gov. Cuomo to rethink a piece of his budget that they say will ultimately cost the Big Apple about $125 million more a year in homeless housing and health care costs…

Homeless New Yorkers Are Spending More Time In Shelters Than Ever Before

Not only are there more homeless New Yorkers today than compared to six years ago, but they’re staying in shelters an average three to four months longer than they used to, despite programs launched by Mayor Bill de Blasio to move them into permanent housing…

New York Times

Members of New York Congressional delegation call on Cuomo to back program to fight homelessness

Nearly a dozen members of the New York congressional delegation want Gov. Cuomo to get on board with a proposed state program to help keep families out of homeless shelters…

Gotham Gazette

In Push for City Resources, Advocates Show Acute Impacts of Homelessness

As examination of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s preliminary budget for next city fiscal year continues, the Citizens’ Committee for Children, a small data- and advocacy-focused non-profit, is releasing a new infographic capturing key aspects of the city’s homelessness crisis, particularly the high proportions of families with children and black and Latino families that make up the city’s homeless population…

New York Times

NYC homeless students stiffed by Mayor de Blasio’s budget

The number of homeless students enrolled in city schools has exploded to record highs — but Mayor de Blasio won’t pay for social workers who’d make a huge difference those needy kids’ lives, activists and school staffers charge…

A new study out of NYU takes a hard look at New York City school students experiencing homelessness

One in eight New York City elementary school students experiences homelessness before fifth grade, according to a new study out of New York University…

New York Times

Homeless moms get a helping hand with job opportunities

It could’ve been a job fair anywhere. Nervous candidates met with possible employers in buzzing conference rooms. Would-be bosses and potential employees discussed work histories and résumés, hoping for a match. Except this job fair was in a Brooklyn homeless shelter, and all the job hunters were homeless mothers, 104 of them…

New York Times

Bipartisan group of elected officials calls for new program to fight homelessness

With state budget negotiations fast approaching, more than a dozen lawmakers are calling for the final spending plan to include enactment of a program to reduce reliance on homeless shelters…

WSJ

New York City Tries to Link Nexus of Doctors Serving the Homeless

Like many homeless adults in New York City, Nathaniel Kee has visited every borough to receive medical care…

New York Times

Shutdown’s Pain Cuts Deep for the Homeless and Other Vulnerable Americans

Ramona Wormley-Mitsis got welcome news in December: After years of waiting, the federal government had approved a subsidy that allowed her to rent a three-bedroom house, bracketed by a white picket fence to keep her two autistic sons from bolting into traffic…

Raising the stakes on homeless space

Private developers and landlords are making big profits from shelter rents as the city faces an uphill battle with its growing homeless population…

New York Times

Exclusive: De Blasio to convert nearly 500 NYC ‘cluster site’ homeless apartments to affordable housing

With the exploding number of homeless still hovering at record levels, Mayor de Blasio will announce Tuesday a nearly-done deal to convert 468 shelter apartments into permanent, affordable apartments for the homeless…

Politico

Single adults in homeless shelters are on the rise

Mayor Bill de Blasio has had some success in trying to curb a homelessness crisis that has exploded under his watch, but the number of single adults in shelter continues to reach record highs almost every month…

Politico

Annual homeless count in New York City shows 6 percent decrease

There were 3,675 people homeless and unsheltered on the streets of New York City during a single night in 2018 — a 6 percent decrease from the year prior, according to the latest results in an annual winter count called the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate…

NY1

How much progress is NYC making to open 90 new homeless shelters?

Charmel Lucas has been living in a hotel for about a year. “It is very stressful,” Lucas said. “People are having a ton of anxiety up in here.” …

NY1

The New York prison-to-shelter pipeline

It’s a crisp 34 degrees and Christopher Kaminski doesn’t have a coat. “It’s a little overwhelming right now. My first day out,” he noted…

New York Times

New Homeless Shelters Slow to Open, Despite de Blasio Promise

New York City has opened only half the 20 shelters that Mayor Bill de Blasio set as a target for 2017 to tackle the city’s homelessness crisis…

Politico

Opioid crisis driving record number of deaths among city’s homeless, report finds

The opioid crisis is having a devastating effect on New York City’s homeless population, driving up the number of homeless people who died in fiscal year 2017 to a record number, according to a recent report…

Politico

De Blasio playing catch-up on unsheltered homelessness

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new approach to the city’s homeless crisis is borne of the lessons learned from admitted failures during his first term, but advocates say the city still may not be moving fast enough in the right direction to effect lasting change…

NY1

Why De Blasio’s Response to Homelessness Might “Turn the Tide”

Since its release four months ago, there’s been a lively public discussion about whether New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to address homelessness…

NY1

Inside City Hall Interview with Gateway Housing Board Members Tony Hannigan and George Nashak

HRA Commissioner Steve Banks, the City Hall official leading the administration’s efforts, discussed Mayor de Blasio’s new plan for the homelessness crisis…

New York Times

Op-Ed by Gateway Housing President Ted Houghton and Board Chairman Bill Traylor

The plan Mayor de Blasio unveiled on Tuesday to address homelessness has a strong shot at success, because it finally concedes…

Politico

With new homelessness plan, de Blasio gives himself an extraordinarily difficult task

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled an ambitious plan on Tuesday to build or open 90 new homeless shelters in New York City over the next five years, with the aim of opening 20 new shelters in 2017 and 20 more the following year, vowing slow and incremental progress in tackling the city’s homelessness problem…

NYC

De Blasio Administration Announces Plan to Turn the Tide on Homelessness with Borough-Based Approach;

In a speech at the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, before an audience of nonprofit service providers, community leaders, and…

New York Times

De Blasio Calls for ‘Blood and Guts’ War on Homelessness. Is His Plan Gutsy Enough?

Mayor Bill de Blasio put it bluntly on Tuesday, saying he could not see an immediate end to New York City’s homelessness crisis and that…

City Limits

De Blasio Homeless Plan Aims to Replace Hotels and Cluster Sites with New Shelters

As they confronted an unprecedented homelessness crisis, first the Bloomberg administration and then their de Blasio-era counterparts turned…

Slant

“Credit Where Credit Is Due” by Gateway Housing Board Member Christine Quinn

Four months ago, I spoke candidly about New York City’s unprecedented homeless crisis and emphasized that in order to truly tackle the crisis, the city had to change course and put homeless women and kids…

New York Post

Homeless could get more hotels as de Blasio vows to get rid of them

The city could be using hotel rooms to house the homeless for another nine years under a new proposal, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s stated goal of changing that policy “as quickly as possible.”…

New York Slate

New York City Must Do Better for the Homeless in 2017

With the calendar turning to January and temperatures drop to sub-freezing depths, it is important to keep in mind those who have no roof over their heads, no place to shield themselves from winter’s bite: New York City’s homeless…

New York Times

With Homeless Issue, Christine Quinn Gets Back in the Conversation

On Sept. 11, 2013, Christine C. Quinn, who had just suffered a rough and at one time entirely unimaginable defeat in New York City’s Democratic primary race for mayor, headed downtown to the National September 11 Memorial and turned off her phone…

gateway housing

New York City’s Supportive Housing Task Force Report

In November 2015, Mayor de Blasio announced his landmark commitment to provide 15,000 units of supportive housing over the next 15 years to the most vulnerable New Yorkers. Supportive housing is a ordable housing with supportive services…

IBO logo

Not Reaching The Door: Homeless Students Face Many Hurdles on the Way to School by NYC Independent Budget Office

IBO has previously documented in our annual compendium of public school facts and figures the growing number of students who live in temporary housing…

gateway housing

NYC Shelter Repair Scorecard

As part of the effort to improve conditions in homeless shelters, Mayor de Blasio created the Shelter Repair Scorecard to report publicly on the conditions of homeless shelter facilities and track progress made by the expanded repair program to address sub-standard conditions…

Crains

De Blasio housing czar personally tells developers to house homeless in affordable units.

A top de Blasio official has been calling developers of affordable rental buildings about a new regulation that would require them to house homeless families—the administration’s latest attempt to stem the city’s record-setting shelter population…

Comptroller

An Investigation into the Provision of Child Care Services in New York City Homeless Shelters

New York City is in the midst of a homeless crisis that is unparalleled in modern times. Since 2007, the number of families with children relying on the City Department of Homeless Services (“DHS”) for shelter has swelled by 68 percent, from 7,624 families…

Daily News

City puts up homeless families for $600 per night at Times Square hotels

The city has paid more than $600 a night to house dozens of homeless families in Times Square hotels — almost twice the cost of a night in the cushy confines of the Waldorf Astoria….

gateway housing

Steven Banks Was Hired to Stem New York’s Homelessness Crisis. It Didn’t Happen.

As record numbers of homeless people crowded New York City’s shelters in December, Mayor Bill de Blasio put Steven Banks in charge…

WIN

WIN Forgotten Face of Homelessness Report

As our city’s homelessness crisis reaches epidemic proportions, consensus on how to stanch the ow of New Yorkers into the shelter system has remained elusive…

Legal Services NYC

New Destiny Report on Domestic Violence

In 2015 and 2016, the Bronx Domestic Violence Roundtable and Bronx Legal Services conducted and analyzed data from the “Legal and Social Services Needs Assessment of Bronx Communities Affected by Intimate Partner Violence.”…

gateway housing

On homelessness, a better way: Lay out a multi-year shelter plan, and gear programs to help families in deep need

Christine C. Quinn

“Single mother, formerly incarcerated, legally blind in one eye. Just when I felt that I was getting my life back together . . . the dishonest broker took all the money I’d worked so hard to save.”…

Legal Services NYC

Mayor Bill de Blasio says NYC evictions fell from 2013 to 2015

New York City evictions fell by 24 percent from 2013 to 2015, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio. There were 22,000 evictions by the city marshals in 2015 and 28,000 in 2013…

NYT

Long Nights With Little Sleep for Homeless Families Seeking Shelter

On Wednesday, New York City hit a record 59,373 people in shelters overseen by the Department of Homeless Services. There is no clearer indicator of the homelessness crisis than in the Bronx at the intake center for families with children…

WSJ

New York City Relies on Motels to House Homeless

In Woodside, Queens, the Quality Inn looks like an ordinary motel. But more than half of its rooms are filled with homeless New Yorkers, with taxpayers picking up the tab…

WSJ

Few Homeless Shelter Workers Are Trained to Administer Heroin Antidote

An antidote for a heroin overdose is as easy to buy in New York City pharmacies as a bottle of aspirin. New York State laws have made the antidote…

City Limits

Success and Struggles Point to a Better Way to Help NYC’s Chronically Homeless

For three years, Mark Williams has come home to his own studio apartment in a spacious six-story building on the western edge of Fordham manor…

Daily News

NYC homeless shelter residents making more calls to 311 over problems, but ‘no one’s listening’

The city’s homeless shelter residents are increasingly angry and lashing out about poor living conditions despite Mayor de Blasio’s assertions that the struggling system serving more than 60,000 people is improving…

Politico

City’s homeless students face mounting academic obstacles, report shows

New York City’s roughly 82,000 homeless students face more academic obstacles than their peers in almost every way, according to a study released Thursday by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness…

WSJ

New York City Makes Progress on Homeless Shelters

New York City officials said Friday they had reduced some building and safety violations in homeless shelters, providing welcome news in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s struggle to curb homelessness and improve the shelter system…

DNA

‘Cluster Site’ Homeless Shelter Violations Go Up in July, Report Says

The city cut outstanding building code violations in its homeless shelters this year, but the number of violations in cluster sites — rental apartments in privately-owned shelters — rose for the third time in the past three months…

Daily News

Brooklyn shelter abruptly boots 70 homeless women to hotel near Kennedy Airport to make room for families

Dozens of homeless women were up in arms Thursday after the city forced them from their Brooklyn shelter with less than a day’s notice. The 70 women living at the…

DNA

Homeless Say ‘We Are Your Neighbors Too’ as Residents Oppose New Shelter

Plans for a new homeless shelter in East Harlem were pushed through without community input and are being opposed by neighbors, officials said Thursday….

Gotham Gazette

Does the State have the Conviction and Commitment to End Homelessness?

The week of June 26, over 70 San Francisco media outlets came together to report on homelessness in the Bay Area. The collaboration, the San Francisco Homeless Project, produced over 300 local articles…

DNA Info

Homeless Shelter Violations Dropped 10 Percent in Latest Scorecard Report

Building violations at the city’s homeless shelters were cut another 10 percent last month as the city works to create a more safe and clean environment for residents, officials said…

WSJ

NYC Effort to Help Homeless Makes Slow Progress

As New York City’s homeless problem worsened last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio parted with two top officials overseeing the issue, called weekly staff meetings that sometimes…

DNA Info

City Ends Program to House Homeless Families in Staten Island Hotels

A controversial program to house homeless families in Staten Island hotels has ended after the last residents were moved out last week, officials said…

gateway housing

Editorial: Federal officials have shifted money to favor permanent housing, but New York City also needs transitional shelters.

In New York City, during working hours, homelessness is there for all to see. An estimated 58,000 people forage for help and survival by day, then retreat to shelters at night…

gateway housing

Gateway Housing Letter to the Editor on the need to reinvest in shelter

How is it news that HELP USA provides shelter to 6% of NYC’s homeless people and had 6% of the critical incidents reported in 2015…

gateway housing

HUD Slashes Funding for Some NYC Shelters

Laura Nahmias

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is slashing millions of dollars in funding for several of New York City’s major homeless shelters, a move that may leave the city on the hook to fill the gaps…

gateway housing

New Destiny Housing Corporation writes that family homelessness needs to be addressed.

Carol Corden

New York City is to be applauded for reducing the numbers of people who are sleeping on the streets…

gateway housing

The Mayor Announces a Restructuring of NYC’s Response to Homelessness, Including Replacing Existing Sites with the Gateway Housing Model

Office of the Mayor

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced a comprehensive plan to ensure homeless services are delivered as efficiently and effectively as possible with a focus on both preventing vulnerable New Yorkers from becoming homeless…

gateway housing

HRA Commissioner Steve Banks says City Homelessness Programs are Working

Laura Nahmias

The web of new subsidy and rental assistance programs City Hall has put in place since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office to help homeless New Yorkers get out of shelters and into permanent housing is showing signs of sputtering to life…

gateway housing

Number of Homeless Families in NYC Nears Record

Jennifer Fermino

The number of families with children in city shelters has been rising for months, reversing a previous downward trend and bringing the current levels dangerously close to the all-time high…

gateway housing

Op-Ed from Matthew Desmond, author of “Evicted”

America stands alone among wealthy democracies in the depth and expanse of its poverty…

gateway housing

Ralph Nunez of Homes for the Homeless Weighs in on Homeless Crisis

Your eyes do not deceive you, the headlines do not exaggerate: homelessness is worse than ever in New York City….

gateway housing

Governor Announces New Resources to Address Homelessness

Jesse McKinley and Vivian Yee

Proposing to address the challenges of homelessness and a lack of affordable housing, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York delivered a State of the State speech on Wednesday that called for a financial and spiritual commitment to rebuild the state’s social and physical infrastructure…

gateway housing

Let’s Rethink Our Homeless Shelters

Christine C. Quinn

MORE than 57,000 New Yorkers will sleep in a shelter tonight. In this city of glistening wealth, they lack a permanent place to call home…

gateway housing

De Blasio to launch plan to fix homeless shelters after damning Scott Stringer report

Greg B. Smith

City-run lodging for homeless families has become a wretched refuge, plagued by thousands of serious code violations, a comprehensive new report by Controller Scott Stringer has found…

gateway housing

NYC must fix homeless shelters if city expects people to use them

Scott Stringer

When you take a look at our city’s homeless shelters, you can begin to understand why thousands of homeless New Yorkers would prefer to stay shivering on the streets rather than spend a night in a shelter…

gateway housing

De Blasio announces plans to stop using ‘cluster sites’ to house the city’s homeless

Erin Durkin

The city will stop using controversial “cluster sites” to house homeless families within three years, the de Blasio administration announced Monday…

gateway housing

De Blasio Announces 3-Year Plan to Permanently End Use of Clusters as Homeless Shelters

Will Build New Shelter Model Combining Affordable Housing and Community Space; Return Clusters to Housing Market…