Coalition for the Homeless

City Council to Mayor's Administration: Stop Blaming Homelessness Epidemic on State Legislature and the Economy

At a committee meeting held yesterday, City Council members told the Department of Homeless Services to start coming up with better solutions, not temporary fixes and excuses, to combat the rapid rise of homelessness in the city."We're in crisis mode, and if we don't do something over the next 16 mo ... More >>

UAW Endorses Occupy Wall Street; Massive March Planned Today

This morning the UAW -- the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America -- issued an official endorsement of Occupy Wall Street, which they deem "a movement for economic and political justice." They've said they'll commit resources to the movement ... More >>

Transport Workers Union Denied Injunction Against City's Use of Bus Drivers to Transport Arrested Protesters; Suit Not Dismissed

Today the Transport Workers Union, which last week voted unanimously in support of Occupy Wall Street, went to court to fight against the city's use of city bus drivers to transport arrested protesters. Following the Brooklyn Bridge arrests on Saturday, the Union said the NYPD had commandeered numer ... More >>

Record Level of Homelessness Reported in NYC

NewsOne​Coalition for the Homeless, an organization that develops cost-effective strategies to end mass homelessness in NYC, released their annual report today. According to the report, homelessness increased 8% in the past year, and has gone up 34% since Mayor Bloomberg took office in 2002.

Frigid Outside and No Room at Homeless Inns

Bloomberg 3: No more Mr. Nice Guy​The temperature's dipping into the low 30s today, so we can be can be sure to get more glimpses of life in the Age of Bloomberg like this one, as described in the Legal Aid lawsuit filed yesterday seeking a new court order to force the city to house the homele ... More >>

Drop-in center threatened by city transit plans

​The Port Authority has announced plans to evict the Open Door Drop In Center, which provides showers and health services for homeless people, to make way for either the planned westward extension of the 7 line or additional space for bus terminal employees, depending who you ask.

Budget Office: City Food Stamps Hit New Record

​Here's another of those inconvenient milestones of the Bloomberg Years: The Independent Budget Office says that the city has hit an all-time high in the number of New Yorkers receiving food stamps - a record 1.6 million. The news comes a week after the Coalition for the Homeless announced tha ... More >>

Weekly Rallies Continue Against Bloomberg Homeless Move-Ins; Thompson Joins Fight

When the city quietly transformed a brand-new Bronx building into an emergency homeless shelter in August, it incited a lawsuit and a blitz of rallies. Last Saturday -- the fifth in a series of Saturday protests that, organizers say, with continue up through the election -- more than two dozen an ... More >>

Blind Items About Raw Sex and Meth Habits!

Your guess is not as good as mine. But go ahead and try.

This Week in the Voice

When you think about out-of-control parents and coaches in little-league sports, you probably think of the suburbs. But right here in the city, there are sixth-graders playing 12 months a year, with sponsors like Nike, signing bonuses -- and out-of-control parents and coaches. This is Elite Youth ... More >>

One-Week Homeless Guy Comes Back with Donations, Smelly Socks

We told you back on March 2 that graphic artist Yusef Ramelize was going homeless for one week to raise awareness and cash for the Coalition for the Homeless. He came back from the streets last night, and we caught up with him at his desk job this afternoon. "I wish everyone could experience what I ... More >>

Artist Goes Homeless for a Week to Raise Money, Awareness

This weekend Yusef Ramelize (pictured above) began his "Homeless for One Week" project. He's going to do without his apartment -- a pretty nice one, it appears -- through next Sunday, as a way of raising awareness and funds for the Coalition for the Homeless. A graphic artist and production coord ... More >>

Kicking It Soviet-Style: Day Two of the Yanks-Mets Stadium Hearings

If yesterday's state assembly hearing on stadium funding focused on the big guns, today was for the hoi polloi. The city Industrial Development Agency is required to hold a public hearing before voting on new projects - in this case, $342 million in new tax-free bonds for the Yankees and Mets - so ... More >>

Homeless Families Pack Shelters; Bloomberg Says, Quit Yer Bitchin'

Governor Paterson Means Business

Spitzer's successor disses his bad old radical self

More People are Homeless Now Than When Bloomberg Took Office: Report

Bloomberg Wants to Get in Your Genes

Compared to the present mayor’s contempt for civil liberties, Giuliani was a piker

Bloomberg Charges the Homeless Rent

The mayor does what his predecessor always wanted to: charge for shelter stays

Blue Wall of Lawlessness

The NYPD has a long-standing reputation for its "excessive" surveillance. Now more than ever.

J. Edgar Bloomberg: COINTELPRO in NY

Not only the president is in need of an education on the Bill of Rights

Mark Hersh

'Threatened tenants with a bat'

Out of the Shelter, Into the Fire

New city program for homeless: Keep your job or keep your apartment

Spat Over Homeless Stats

TV Ads Slap Bloomberg

Wounded Pride

LGBT kids say city-funded shelter for the homeless breaks its covenant

Helter Shelter

Inside the City's Dreaded Dumping Ground for the Homeless

Ready, Willing & Under Fire

Community Fights Doe Fund Shelter

Holiday Happenings

From the Margins Erased

When the Towers Fell, Homeless People Disappeared. Their Friends Are Still Searching.

When Crazy Is Normal

Portrait of a Grieving City

Queers Without Money

They Are Everywhere. But We Refuse to See Them.

Show Me the Money

Landlord Rep Tried to Keep Public Info Private

2554 Days Late and $1 Billion Short

Rudy’s Housing Swan Song Is Too Little, Too Late

The Apathy Myth

What Really Keeps 100 million Americans From Voting

Endurance Training

Pinching Pennies

City Agency Targets Elderly for Payback

Rumble at the Rent Board

Annual Ritual Gets Rougher Than Usual

Virtual Marchers, Real Results

Fight Back Online

Shelter Skelter

Homeless Women, Some Physically Disabled, Face Evacuation

Wake-up Call for Rudy

If Bedrooms Are for Sleeping, Why Won’t the Mayor Build More?

Sanctioned Sadism

Why the Right Needs the Homeless

Age-Old Neglect

Former Foster Kids: City Abandons Us

Craven Cave-In

Rudy's Senate Ambitions Prompt Reversal on City's Upstate Homeless Camp

Mobile Homeless

For many of New York City's dispossessed, the safest place is on wheels.

The Disappeared