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Thousands of people don’t have stable housing, sleeping on floors and couches and packed into too-small bedrooms. But they ...
Officials say an East New York redevelopment project that broke ground on Tuesday will ultimately bring more than 2,000 ...
Community fridges first popped up in the East Village and other New York neighborhoods just as the COVID-19 pandemic began to ravage the Big Apple in 2020, and quickly became a lifeline for those in ...
A project providing housing to homeless people in Champaign Urbana with ongoing medical conditions is breaking ground.
New York Focus and ProPublica found that the state’s social services agencies placed just under half the 34,000 individuals and families receiving emergency shelter outside the city in fiscal ...
The lack of affordable apartments in New York City is driving more New Yorkers into homeless shelters, according to a new report. The Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit advocacy group ...
Homelessness in New York City received intense media coverage as the migrant crisis became fodder in the presidential election. But far less attention has been paid to the homeless population ...
The police serve as the mental health system’s gatekeepers, particularly on untreated serious mental illness. New York has about 8,300 seriously mentally ill homeless people. If they’re to get any ...
With temperatures rising over 100 degrees last week, heat-related illness among the city’s street homeless became a serious concern for outreach workers toiling under the same conditions. People ...
Hotels used to house homeless families outside New York City must be inspected by counties once every six months. After that, the district has 30 days to submit the report to OTDA for review.