Youth who’ve left foster care have long been part of the city’s larger homeless population. The de Blasio administration is taking steps to address the issue, but advocates are pushing for stronger action.
A resident takes issue with our story on the impact—or lack thereof—of shelters and supportive housing facilities on neighborhood quality of life.
After homelessness soared during Bill de Blasio’s first year in office, the city last month saw its biggest drop in the family shelter population in nearly four years. But there’s a long way to go.
New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to end veteran homelessness by the end of 2015, an incredible achievement for a city that in 2012 had the second largest population of homeless veterans in the country.
In neighborhoods after neighborhood, plans to build shelters or supportive housing attract protests from residents worried about crime, disruption and reduced property values. When the protests end and the facilities open, are those fears realized?
New York Cares is out of coats after distributing the last of its 75,000 stock on Feb. 6.
New York City has a high-quality childcare program called EarlyLearn. New York City has a large population of working families with young children in its homeless shelters. Why is it so hard to connect the two?
The federal government’s failure to maintain the value of rent subsidies is one reason why older New Yorkers increasingly end up in homeless shelters or on friends’ couches.
New research suggests high poverty is a bigger threat to cities. More on that, shoddy charter school finances, tuition assistance that falls short, a vulnerable neighborhood and a new Census tool in our weekly rundown of urban research and reporting.
The city’s homeless services system does little to track complaints by shelter residents about abuse and mistreatment at the hands of security guards.
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