Care For the Homeless

June 1 - Sept 15, 2018 Fill a need! Help us send them off to school with needed supplies and ensure a strong start to their academic year! List of Supplies Needed: Composition Notebooks Binders Tab Dividers Printer Paper Pens Pencils Rulers Pencil Cases Crayons Calculators Erasers White Out Glue-sticks Sharpeners Markers Highlighters Kid-safe Scissors Mini Staplers Mini Hand Sanitizers and other school related supplies. Drop-off Location: Care for the Homeless Headquarters 30 E 33rd Street Fifth Floor New York, NY 10016 If you are unable to send school supplies, there's a ton of other ways you can help! 1. You may make a cash donation here . Simply visit our donations page and select "other" in the "Please allocate my donation to:" drop-down to apply your donation to the CFH Back to School Drive. Once you've selected "other" in the drop-down, please specify "Back to School" in the op...

Photo cred: Washington Post Last Wednesday, shockingly, federal HUD Secretary Ben Carson and the Trump administration endorsed federal legislation to raise rents on the neediest households in America. The legislation released during National Fair Housing Month would change long-established U.S. housing policy currently based on low-income tenants in federally subsidized housing. Tenants whom are paying 30% of their gross household income in rent. The legislation will increase the tenant share of subsidized rent to 35% of gross income, or in some cases more. It’s shocking because HUD is the very agency charged with providing housing to vulnerable people, and shocking because across the country, and specifically in New York City, there is a housing shortage exasperating a universally acknowledged affordable housing crisis and increasing homelessness. The affordable housing crisis impacts moderate- and middle-income households, but, is especially difficult for very low-income househ...

Last week client leaders serving on the CFH Consumer Advisory Committee held a discussion on the unavailability of housing for extremely-low-income people and households living in deep poverty. Not surprisingly, their conclusion was that the number one housing policy problem facing New Yorkers struggling to find and maintain housing is the unavailability of housing units for the most vulnerable in our city.  The CAB discussion came as the group endorsed Care for the Homeless joining the “30,000 Homes for Homeless New Yorkers” campaign. The advocacy effort, made up of 35 advocacy organizations, called for New York City to increase the number of newly developed housing units targeted to people experiencing homelessness in our city. In a letter to Mayor de Blasio, the 30,000 Homes for Homeless New Yorkers campaign urged creating 30,000 new stable housing units for homeless New Yorkers by 2026 as part of the City’s affordable housing plan.   The letter noted that the cu...

For years Care for the Homeless has been advocating that stable housing results in both better health outcomes and savings of public resources, and that “Housing is Healthcare”. So, we like to point it out when a major study backs us up. Last month the well-respected Rand Corporation think tank study, “Evaluation of Housing for Health”, called homelessness “…a pervasive public health issue.” They’re right, of course. Our Care for the Homeless health care providers have long said that any medical or mental health condition, and almost any treatment, is improved with stable housing. Care for the Homeless Executive Director George Nashak recently said if Care for the Homeless providers could write just one script, it wouldn’t be for a wonder drug, it would be for stable housing. That’s why we’ve passed out buttons that proclaim, “Housing is Healthcare”. The Rand study documented that people experiencing homelessness “…utilize health and other social services at a significantly hig...