Care For the Homeless

 Help us keep homeless New Yorkers healthy and warm this winter! Every year, winter in New York City can reach below freezing temperatures with strong winds and snow, and no one should face an icy winter without proper clothing. A hat and scarf can go a long way to help a person's well-being. As the weather grows colder, CFH runs an annual Winter Accessories Drive to help keep homeless New Yorkers warm. This year's drive will be held from November 1 to January 31, 2019. List of Supplies Needed*: Hats Gloves Scarves Socks (Please, new socks only) *Sorry, we are unable to accept coats. We can only accept new or clean/laundered items. Drop-off Location: Care For the Homeless Headquarters 30 E 33rd Street, Fifth Floor New York, NY 10016 If you are unable to send winter accessories there's a ton of other ways you can help! 1.  You may make an online donation here . Simply visit our donations page and select "other" in the "Ple

Care For the Homeless, along with 56 partner organizations including the leadership of Coalition for the Homeless, is advocating for the “House our Future NY” campaign asking Mayor Bill de Blasio to make available 30,000 new units of affordable housing for homeless New Yorkers by 2026, with 24,000 of these units to be created through new construction.             In 2014, Mayor De Blasio announced his Housing New York 10-year affordable housing plan aimed at creating 200,000 units of affordable housing. In 2017, he announced the Housing New York Plan 2.0, which increased the number of affordable homes from 200,000 to 300,000. This is in the midst of an ever-increasing homeless population fueled by rising rents in NYC, stagnant wages and the unavailability of affordable homeless to extremely low income New Yorkers. Currently there are 58,773 people in the City’s Department of Homeless Services’ shelter system, 21,639 of which are children. In fiscal year 2017, 129,803 unique indivi