Homelessness
Data Drop: Where the Homeless Children Are
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Only a third of the students who reported being homeless last school year were in the formal shelter system.
2020 election
More Than Long Lines: Barriers Homeless NYers Face When Voting
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Advocacy groups are dispensing information, answering questions and offering rides to help unhoused New Yorkers exercise their rights.
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
Why You Aren’t Homeless: How Privilege & Fortune Shape the Shelter Census
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Sure, choices matter. But race, gender, wealth, health and identity play an outsized role in exposing New Yorkers to the risk of homelessness.
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
Calls for More Aftercare to Keep Homeless From Returning to Shelters
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Advocates and providers say many more families need intensive ongoing support to avoid a return to shelter amid an historic homelessness crisis — even before the COVID-19 outbreak forced thousands of low-income breadwinners out of work.
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
Opinion: Home Stability Support Needed Now to Boost Rental Assistance Amid COVID-19
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‘HSS would ensure that our state’s most vulnerable residents can continue to afford rent and remain in secure homes in these uncertain times and even after the current eviction moratorium ends.’
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
Emergency Grants Can Help Stop Homelessness — if You Have a Lawyer
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Nearly 900,000 families may have received ‘one-shot deals’ from the city over the past decade, but chances are only those who had an attorney—as well as a check—avoided eviction.
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
Despite Broad Support, Albany Might Again Balk on Rental Help for the Homeless
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Home Stability Support has the support of tenants’ rights advocates and the landlord lobby, but there’s a major snag: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has resisted it.
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
NYC’s Homeless Hotel Population Surges as City Grapples with Housing Crisis
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When Mayor de Blasio in 2017 announced a plan to end the use of hotels as homeless shelters by 2023, there were about 7,500 homeless people in hotel rooms paid for by the city. Today, there are 11,750.
Homelessness
Thousands of NYC’s Homeless Parents were Recently Kids Themselves
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Parents account for the majority of homeless unaccompanied New Yorkers under age 25, according to city data,
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
NYC Has a Family Homelessness Crisis. Who are the Families?
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Policymakers and most everyday New Yorkers have yet to come face-to-face with the extent of the crisis, even as mass instability takes a lasting toll on individual lives and social networks in the city.