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...

Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo haven’t seen eye-to-eye on much lately, but that doesn’t mean they can’t cooperate on the issue of homelessness...

The president of the nation’s oldest homelessness advocacy group accused the de Blasio administration of severely underestimating New York’s homeless population. The true number of...

An increase in the city’s homeless population is making New York City a harder sell to some prospective buyers. The city’s homeless shelter population is the...

The city is planning to increase emergency housing for thousands of homeless adults and children fleeing domestic violence, the latest effort by the de...

The Spring Creek Towers subsidized housing complex in East New York is rejecting potential tenants using rent vouchers from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Living...

After months of dissembling and redirection, Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted the number and the condition of the city’s homeless residents is indeed a...