Concerned that a city proposal to penalize homeless adults who do not follow shelter rules will put more people on the street, dozens of City Council members are pushing the…
While the Department of Homeless Services struggles to sell its survey of homeless New Yorkers as accurate, the agency faces another numbers challenge: devising a computer registry for a more…
The city on Friday asked a panel of state appellate court judges to let the Department of Homeless Services penalize single adults who do not follow certain shelter system rules…
After weeks of negotiations, the Bloomberg administration on Friday agreed not to place in foster care the children of homeless families that stay too long in the shelter system —…
The city’s pension funds last week pressured a handful of Fortune 500 companies to enforce policies forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation–or face losing their investments.