More than 100,000 people are now sleeping in shelters each night, and many of the City’s lowest-income households are at risk of homelessness because they are paying more than 50 percent of their income in rent. New York City cannot escape this crisis without directly addressing the systemic failure to ensure that there is enough housing with rents affordable to the lowest income households. (Learn more about this issue here—and join us for our discussion about it on Monday 2/23!)

That’s why OHI is part of the Homes for NYC coalition, pushing for the city to prioritize investing in deeply affordable housing—specifically for those who are currently homeless and extremely low-income households at imminent risk of homelessness. As a starting point, we’re asking the city to commit to prioritizing the creation of 12,000 units of deeply affordable housing each year for the next 5 years.

Use the button below to email Mayor Mamdani to ask him to prioritize creating 12,000 units of deeply affordable housing each year for the next 5 years!