One U.S. Air Force veteran with a $3,600-a-month housing budget had to become homeless before he could find a place to live in the...

The city of New York sued a broker and a landlord Wednesday for allegedly refusing to accept tenants using government housing vouchers. Landlord Oxford...

Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to finance nonprofits that would buy private apartments set aside for homeless New Yorkers under the city’s controversial cluster-site...

The city is renting dozens of hotel rooms in a new Queens luxury apartment-and-hotel complex. The Kew Gardens building at 123-28 82nd Avenue contains...

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to build 15,000 supportive housing units to help the city handle its homelessness crisis is not moving forward very...

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to curb homelessness in New York City is exacerbating the housing crisis, according to New York City Public Advocate...

City Hall and several nonprofits defended Housing First, a federal policy guideline designed to help homeless people find housing, after 23 Republican lawmakers wrote...

Despite an announcement last year that the city was cutting ties with the troubled homeless shelter provider, the Human Resources Administration just renewed a...

The state is about to dramatically increase the rent subsidies it provides to certain low-income families facing eviction in the city. In a lawsuit...

City Comptroller Scott Stringer on Wednesday took aim at the mayor’s plan to create 100,000 jobs over the next decade to address the city’s...

For City Hall, fighting homelessness comes with a heavy price tag: the de Blasio administration in one instance paid more than $600 per night...

Changes made to the city’s affordable housing guidelines could require developers with subsidized units to board homeless New Yorkers currently living in emergency shelters....

A supportive housing developer is building a 120,000-square-foot apartment building for homeless veterans in Coney Island. The state Office of Mental Health is funding...

A planned hotel-to-shelter may have cost Queens Assembly member Marge Markey her seat. Markey, a Democrat first elected in 1998, lost the primary by...

The opponents of a hotel-shelter conversion in Queens may have finally got their way. The co-owner of the Holiday Inn Express in Maspeth that...

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday appointed former Commissioner of Homeless Services, Gilbert Taylor, as a Family Court judge. Taylor quit his post as...

Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking measures to curb the city’s homelessness problem by sending teams of social workers and police officers to seek...

Though the mayor’s own chief investigator called for cutbacks to the much-maligned cluster housing program, it’s not going away. In fact, the housing program...

The city government is increasingly turning to hotels to house the city’s homeless, at a steep price. On average, the cost of renting hotel...

Only a small minority of homeless shelter residents receiving rent vouchers under the city’s Living in Communities program are using them to move out...