Category: News

The Adams administration says it’s working to reduce the number of babies born in New York City shelters — a number that reached an estimated 2,000 births between July 2023 and June 2024. ..Read More

This month, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature took one of the most significant policy steps of the year when they ratified the 2025 state budget, allocating $254 billion of state funding and mixing in a few controversial policy measures as well… ..Read More

Dave Giffen first joined the Coalition for the Homeless in 1988 as a volunteer and returned in 2012 to lead the venerable organization through one of its most challenging eras… ..Read More

With a deal now made on discovery law reforms, lawmakers must turn their attention to another issue still up for negotiation — the involuntary commitment of people with severe mental illness. ..Read More

After decades of complaints about a lack of public bathrooms in New York City, as well as the thousands of summonses for public urination, the City Council enacted a bill Thursday that aimed to double the number of public restrooms in the city by 2035. ..Read More

The City Council is voting Thursday on legislation that would require one public restroom for every 2,000 residents by the year 2035. The plan would significantly expand access to facilities in a city where, by current estimates, just over 1,000 public restroo ..Read More

New York is in the midst of both a mental health crisis and homelessness crisis, which is playing out in a very public fashion — on the streets, subways, and other public spaces. But when it comes to proposing a solution to helping the thousands of unhoused ..Read More

Coalition for the Homeless, VOCAL-NY, Community Service Society and other nonprofit groups have released a blueprint on how the next mayor can solve homelessness. They cite the pressing affordability crisis, the dismally low apartment vacancy rates and surgi ..Read More

CBS News New York’s Jenna DeAngelis has more on how the mayor responded. ..Read More