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Coalition for the Homeless is a not-for-profit advocacy group focused on homelessness in New York. The coalition has engaged in landmark litigation to protect the rights of homeless people, including the right to shelter and the right to vote, and also advocates for long-term solutions to the problem of homelessness.
According to the Coalition for the Homeless, the homeless population of New York rose to an all-time high in 2011. A reported 113,552 people slept in the city's emergency shelters in 2010, including over 40,000 children; marking an 8 percent increase from the previous year, and a 37 percent increase from 2002.
In October alone,130,438 people slept in a city shelter, according to the Coalition for the Homeless, with the not-for-profit group estimating thousands more were on the streets that month. There ...
Saint Francis House, a daytime shelter for the homeless and poor in downtown Boston, Massachusetts; Saint Joseph's House of Hospitality (Pittsburgh) Salvation Army; SAMU Social, a municipal emergency service in several cities in France whose purpose is to provide care and medical aid to homeless people; San Antonio Housing Authority
The Coalition for the Homeless described her as homeless. Kawam was identified through fingerprints, sources said. ... “He smoked K2, drank and bugged out,” said shelter resident Raymond ...
For more information about emergency shelter options, visit the Tarrant County Homeless Coalition website. To receive alerts about cold weather shelter in Arlington, text ARL COLD to 877-799-4950.
Hayes left Sullivan & Comwell in 1982 to launch the National Coalition for the Homeless. [4] He remained with the coalition until 1989 where he brought numerous lawsuits expanding the right to shelter to women and families, and winning multiple cases involving the rights of people with mental disabilities and children.
Callahan v. Carey was a landmark case in the New York County Supreme Court that established the duty of New York State to provide shelter for homeless men. It was brought in 1979 as a class action suit, the first such suit by advocates for the homeless in the United States, and settled with the negotiation in 1981 of a consent decree governing the provision of homeless shelters by New York City.