Residents have been battling the proposed homeless shelter for over two years. The two elected officials — in a letter to the mayor, the buildings commissioner, the Brooklyn district attorney and the ...

New York City’s social services agency now runs one of the nation’s largest housing assistance programs, according to new city data, but advocates and one mayoral candidate say it could be even bigger ...

Each year, New York City and state agencies fund tens of thousands of apartments with on-site services for some of the city’s most vulnerable people. But as of June, more than 5,000 of those ...

A teen was arrested Thursday for allegedly setting a sleeping homeless man on fire on board a train passing through Midtown ...

The number of single adults living in homeless shelters across the five boroughs reached an all-time high during the pandemic, likely contributing to a disproportionate spike in coronavirus deaths ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, said he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools in a plan shared ahead of its ...

A record-high 154,000 public school students — nearly one in seven — were homeless across New York City during the last school year, grim new data revealed Monday. The shocking figures compiled for ...

NEW YORK, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Homeless families and legal advocates sued New York City on Tuesday, claiming a gap in reliable Internet service to 27 homeless shelters where thousands of students were ...