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Today’s Read: From Campaign Promise to Court Appeal: Mayor Mamdani’s Reversal on Housing Vouchers
03/31/2026
- Coalition for the Homeless
A long-running fight over a proposed men’s shelter in Brooklyn has entered a new phase under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with demolition resuming despite over two years of protests and local officials pressing the new administration to reverse course…
Dozens of affordable housing advocates gathered Wednesday outside Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence on the Upper East Side, to protest Zohran Mamdani’s decision to backpedal on his campaign promise to expand a city rental assistance program…
News
NYC housing advocates protest Mamdani’s pivot away from CityFHEPS as budget crisis threatens rental assistance program
04/23/2026
- AMNY
A judge temporarily blocked the city from opening a new intake shelter in the East Village Wednesday after a group of neighborhood residents filed a court challenge over how the Mamdani administration went about closing the existing 30th Street shelter…
News
Judge blocks NYC opening of East Village homeless shelter intake center
04/22/2026
- NY Daily News
The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless issued the following statement in response to the court’s ruling granting the plaintiffs a temporary restraining order in litigation challenging the planned opening of a men’s homeless intake site in the East Village…
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Legal Aid, Coalition for the Homeless Respond to Court Ruling on East Village Intake Shelter
04/22/2026
- Coalition for the Homeless
A long-running fight over a proposed men’s shelter in Brooklyn has entered a new phase under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with demolition resuming despite over two years of protests and local officials pressing the new administration to reverse course…
News
Brooklyn homeless shelter battle enters new phase as Mamdani advances delayed project
04/02/2026
- amNY
Testimony of Coalition for the Homeless before the Housing and Building Committee of the New York City Council, providing insight into the impact of proposed funding for affordable housing and related programs serving all unhoused New Yorkers…
Testimony
Testimony of Coalition for the Homeless before the Housing and Building Committee of the New York City Council on the Housing and Building Committee’s Preliminary Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
03/24/2026
- Coalition for the Homeless
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appealed a court ruling that requires the city to expand the hugely popular — but massively expensive — city-funded housing voucher program called CityFHEPS…
News
Candidate Mamdani Backed Expanding Housing Vouchers. As Mayor, He’s Appealing a Court Order To Do So
03/24/2026
- The City
It is a remarkable fact of life in this relentless city that every person has a right to shelter here. This has been true for almost forty-five years: in 1981, in response to a class-action suit on behalf of homeless men, the state Supreme Court determined that New York City had an obligation to care for its needy…
News
The Right to a Bed in Zohran Mamdani’s New York
03/20/2026
- The New Yorker
Advocates and some City Council members say expanding CityFHEPS housing assistance is key to preventing homelessness. Budget watchdogs warn it’s unsustainable.
News
'Mr. Mayor, I would choose you as an adversary any day of the week.’ Some Council members are readying for latest rental voucher fight
03/17/2026
- City & State NY
Nolberto Jimbo-Niola, 52, died outside in the bitter cold this winter and was found on a Queens park bench with discharge papers from a local hospital…
News
NYC Council bill aims to close gaps between hospitals and shelters after deadly winter
03/06/2026
- Gothamist