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Officials decry conditions at Queens veterans’ shelter

Lawmakers said Wednesday that they remain concerned about conditions inside the Borden Avenue Veterans’ Residence in Long Island City, several weeks after the city pulled out o...

Council Committees hold joint oversight hearing probing claims of ‘inhumane’ conditions at Borden Avenue veterans shelte...

The City Council’s Committees on Veterans and General Welfare held a marathon joint oversight hearing on Wednesday, attempting to shine a light on the “real issues” that veterans i...

CMs Wong and Won raise concerns over conditions at Borden Avenue veterans’ shelter

Council Members Julie Won and Phil Wong have raised concerns about conditions at the Borden Avenue Veterans’ Residence in Long Island City after claiming that they were initially d...

City defends conditions at Queens veterans’ shelter

City officials defended the conditions and policies at the embattled Borden Avenue Veterans’ Residence in Long Island City during a highly anticipated hearing before the City C...

CMs Wong, Won confront DSS commissioner outside Borden Avenue veterans shelter

Council Members Phil Wong and Julie Won joined a number of veterans and advocates outside the Borden Avenue Veterans Residence on Monday, Oct. 5, to confront Department of Social S...

Affordable housing for veterans opens up in Essex County, New York

A new affordable housing complex for local veterans is now open in Essex County, New York. Officials marked the event with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 25.

'We were the victim': Brooklyn shelter's new CEO speaks after corruption scandal

An emergency shelter BHRAGS operates near the Gowanus Canal is set to be converted to a permanent facility with BHRAGS as the service provider. The new leader acknowledges BHRA...

Queens Together partners with Astoria’s Notable to feed Springfield Gardens veteran

Food relief non-profit Queens Together has partnered with Astoria’s Jamaican fusion deli Notable to feed a local Korean War veteran for at least six months. Jonathan Forgash, who f...

How New York is working to house homeless veterans

A 2025 federal report found fewer than 2% of New Yorkers experiencing homelessness are veterans, but that's still more than 1,200 people.

Salvation Army opens transitional housing program for homeless veterans in Lexington

The Salvation Army cut the ribbon on a new transitional housing program in Lexington that will house 16 veterans experiencing homelessness, funded by a five-year VA grant.

NYC has a plan to stop homeless people from cycling between hospitals and the streets

Mark Thomas, 30, in his Bronx apartment, after graduating from Bridge to Home. The Bridge to Home program, which began last year, will officially expand to Brooklyn on Tuesday....

Housing lottery running for 57 units at DOMI in Dutch Kills, rent starts at $1,842

Sign up for our weekly email newsletter to stay updated on the latest housing lotteries in New York City. New York City launched a housing lottery for 57 total housing units at the...

Brown & Crouppen Volunteers to Hand Out Meals at North St. Louis Shelters

Upper Valley Haven readies its new year-round shelter for its first guests

Lost Battalion Center Reopens

New York City Mayor Mamdani and the Parks Commissioner announced on Friday, October, 9, 2026, the Lost Battalion Center in Rego Park has been reopened. A ribbon cutting ceremony ma...

Photos | Breaking Ground celebrates opening of Sutphin Senior Residence 173-home development in Jamaica

The supportive housing developer Breaking Ground celebrated the opening of Sutphin Senior Residence, a 15-story affordable and supportive housing development with 173 units at 97-1...

'Lines just get so much longer': Pearl District women's shelter overwhelmed after closure of Northrup Shelter

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — One week after the only overnight shelter in the downtown Portland area closed its doors, other shelters nearby say they’re struggling to meet the need. Les...

Vancouver homeless shelter urges Gluesenkamp Perez to protect federal housing funding

U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez toured a homeless shelter Thursday inside St. Paul Lutheran Church and saw firsthand the rooms where men are rebuilding their lives. She also hear...

Portland’s Largest Overnight Homeless Shelter Is Gone After Just One Year

Portland’s largest overnight-only homeless shelter has closed, almost exactly one year after it opened in the Pearl District as a major piece of the city’s effort to get more peopl...

Fury after Shelter tries to force pro-migrant line into homeless veteran's story

The former soldier, who served Britain in Eastern Europe, responded to a request from Shelter last December for Britons to share their homelessness stories.

Firefighters battle upper floor fire in an apartment building at Ravenswood Houses NYCHA complex: FDNY

Traffic along 21st Street along the Long Island City and Astoria border was halted by a large emergency response to a fire at the Ravenswood Houses on Thursday, Sept. 3.  The FDNY...

A new kind of men's homeless shelter in Madison

Madison’s new men’s shelter expects guests to work on finding permanent housing.

2 Legionnaires’ disease cases appear at a Queens housing complex. Here’s what we know.

A building at North Shore Towers in Queens. Health officials advised that older or immunocompromised residents should avoid taking showers until the investigation is complete....

Take an inside look at Parkway Hospital’s transformation into affordable housing development, set for February 2028 occu...

The developer behind the transformation of the long-shuttered Parkway Hospital into a massive affordable housing development in Forest Hills is targeting a February 2028 occupancy...