Coalition for the Homeless

An important update: the Coalition for the Homeless is stepping away from X and focusing our efforts on Bluesky and Threads, where we feel we can better engage with our community. We invite you to follow us, and continue to stay connected. See you there! bsky.app/profile/nyhome…

If you see someone who has no place to get out of the cold, please let them know that warming sites across the five boroughs are available. Over 50 NYC hospitals, as well as DHS drop-in centers and shelters, are also operating with a full open-door policy. portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanum…

Regardless of the historic blizzard, the Coalition’s Grand Central Food Program vans were out last night – as they are every night – bringing hot meals, critical supplies, and info about the warming sites to people surviving on the streets of NYC.

Outreach is more effective when people do not fear enforcement. “When city workers show up & throw away all the belongings of somebody who’s surviving out on the streets, that creates a real feeling of distrust,” our Exec. Dir. @GiffenDave told @amNewYork. amny.com/news/mayor-mam…

Alexius Marcano from @nyhomeless explains how imposing fees on unhoused populations creates a cycle of debt that makes it even harder to secure stable housing and undermines public safety. This was just one idea discussed in our recent webinar, ‘Serve & Protect or Curb & Collect?’

*** Coalition for the Homeless and @LegalAidNYC on City Revamping Homeless Sweeps *** Read full statement here: coalitionforthehomeless.org/press/city-rev…

"We must invest in solutions that move us closer to ending the homelessness crisis altogether...@NYCMayor could...immediately [move] 2,000 of the hardest-to-serve unsheltered New Yorkers into empty supportive housing units." 3/3 cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026/0…

"These sweeps failed on multiple levels. First, they were glaringly  inhumane – many unhoused New Yorkers lost the few possessions they had,  and the process undermined their trust in city services...We fully support the mayor’s decision to end encampment sweeps." 2/

Our Exec. Dir. @GiffenDave, and @WINNYC_ORG CEO @chriscquinn, penned an op-ed in @CityAndStateNY. "Over the last 4 years, former Mayor Adams responded to the homelessness crisis with a series of...sweeps of encampments that failed to move a single NYer into permanent housing." 1/

"This is my seventh mayor since I started at the Coalition for @NYHomeless. Nothing has gotten better in terms of solving the underlying reasons for mass homelessness." New FAQNYC podcast thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/hom…

Mark your calendars for April 24th! This year's Women Mean Business Luncheon is a celebration of courage. Join hundreds of NYC's most passionate leaders as we come together to raise crucial funds for the Coalition's First Step Job Training Program. coalitionforthehomeless.org/wmbl-tickets

Our new policy brief focuses on building more affordable housing for those who need it most. We are calling on NYC to build 60,000 new units over the next five years for New York's homeless and extremely low income households. coalitionforthehomeless.org/build-from-the…

"We are calling on Mayor Mamdani to commit to investing in building 12,000 new units of affordable housing per year for five years, targeted specifically for homeless and extremely-low income New Yorkers." #HomesForNYC

“@NYCMayor has a unique opportunity here to make this a more fair, just, and humane city. It can be none of those qualities if housing is affordable only to the wealthy. And it is certainly none of those things if affordable housing is unaffordable those who need it most.”

*** @LegalAidNYC, Coalition for the Homeless Urge City to Bolster Measures to Protect Unhoused New Yorkers From Looming Subzero Temperatures *** read full statement here: coalitionforthehomeless.org/press/legal-ai…

The call for sweeps is an “opportunistic misframing of a terrible tragedy to try to get the administration to try failed approaches of the past,” @NYHomeless Executive Director @GiffenDave told @DavidFBrand for @Gothamist. gothamist.com/news/mamdani-r…

*** Coalition for the Homeless and The Legal Aid Society Applaud Opening of Pearl Street Safe Haven Shelter *** Read full statement here: coalitionforthehomeless.org/press/cfth-las…

"The system does not do a good job of making sure...individuals are getting what they need in order to come in off the street. We need to see far more low-barrier shelters like safe havens," @NYHomeless Exec. Dir. @GiffenDave told @MKramerTV for @CBSNews. cbsnews.com/newyork/news/1…

We’re grateful to partner with the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation as we continue working hard to serve the under-served in New York City.

“We need to start with the people who don’t have homes, whether they’re artists, or work in the food service industry, or as home health aides, whatever their occupation. Who is most in need of that resource?” 2/2

“As a guiding principle, when you have a limited resource, you’d start with the people who are most in need,” Executive Director for @NYHomeless, @GiffenDave told @sssmaldo for @THECITYNY. thecity.nyc/2026/01/29/aff… 1/