A new report on homelessness in New York calls for some shelter residents to be housed for a year to 18 months, so they can get the time and resources…
Community opposition hasn’t stopped plans for a large shelter in the waterfront neighborhood, where five homeless people have been found dead in the past 15 months.
Beverly Davis has a full-time job, a family she supports and a college course to complete. She has plans to become a police officer. Public benefits are essential to her…
Walter Greene worked for a living. Then the work disappeared. Now, like thousands of other low-income New Yorkers, he navigates homeless shelter rules and the welfare bureaucracy.
With new boss Dennis Walcott, the city school system gets a new chance to improve relations with parents and teachers. But there’ll be no second chance for Robeson High in…
She came to the city for a concert and never left. Now she’s part of the city’s complex culture of street homelessness—where cardboard signs are gold, and you’re either a…
Legislators want to restore many human services that Gov. Cuomo proposed cutting. But the Senate and Assembly still differ by tens of millions of dollars on social funding, and some…
Advocates for the homeless have long criticized the Bloomberg administration’s approach to getting people out of shelters. But with the state threatening to end funding for the program, most advocates…
