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A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis

City Limits’ series on family homelessness in New York City is supported by Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York and The Family Homelessness Coalition. City Limits is solely responsible for the content and editorial direction.

Homelessness

Data Drop: Where the Homeless Children Are

By Jarrett Murphy | December 3, 2020

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

By Roshan Abraham | November 2, 2020

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

By David Brand | July 13, 2020

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
Sabrina Purdie

Calls for More Aftercare to Keep Homeless From Returning to Shelters

By David Brand | May 21, 2020

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
State Senate Chamber

Opinion: Home Stability Support Needed Now to Boost Rental Assistance Amid COVID-19

By Judi Kende | March 23, 2020

‘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
HRA Job Center 1365 Jerome Avenue in the Bronx

Emergency Grants Can Help Stop Homelessness — if You Have a Lawyer

By David Brand | March 11, 2020

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
rally in Albany 2020 for homeless policy

Despite Broad Support, Albany Might Again Balk on Rental Help for the Homeless

By David Brand | February 19, 2020

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
Hotel used by DHS as shelter

NYC’s Homeless Hotel Population Surges as City Grapples with Housing Crisis

By David Brand | January 29, 2020

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
young and homeless

Thousands of NYC’s Homeless Parents were Recently Kids Themselves

By David Brand | January 7, 2020

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?

By David Brand | December 10, 2019

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.

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