Coverage of Our Work

• City Limits: With Homeless Population at All-Time High, Public Advocate Calls for Citywide Shelter Plan (October 14, 2022)

• amNewYork: ‘It sends a message that you’re not welcome here’: The rise of anti-homeless architecture in NYC (October 5, 2022)

• Bronx Times: Leading up to community board hearing, supporters of Jacobi’s Just Home call on Velázquez to back the project (September 29, 2022)

• W42ST: West Siders Open their Hearts to Asylum Seeking Families in Hell’s Kitchen Hotels (August 26, 2022)

• amNewYork: State of the sweeps: Has NYC’s encampment crackdown made a dent in the homelessness crisis? (August 23, 2022)

• Patch: Stop Blocking UES Shelter, Neighborhood Leaders Tell Eli Zabar (August 9, 2022)

• Gotham Gazette: Public Advocate Releases Plan to 'End Systemic Homelessness' in New York City by 2026 (July 31, 2022)

• amNewYork: Op-Ed: Say yes to supportive housing in Hell’s Kitchen (July 31, 2022)

• Riverdale Press: Homeless advocates hope Mayor Eric Adams heard them (July 29, 2022)

• News12 Bronx: Health care workers protest latest sweeps of NYC homeless encampment as COVID cases rise (July 25, 2022)

• amNewYork: Mayor Adams announces new homeless initiative amidst large-scale Chinatown sweep (July 19, 2022)

• NY1: Advocates push Adams to provide permanent housing for homeless residents (July 17, 2022)

• amNewYork: ‘Still going through the same madness’: Homeless rights advocates deliver demands to Gracie Mansion for more action (July 17, 2022)

• amNewYork: Accepting services or bowing to ultimatums? Advocates question Adams’ Subway Safety Plan stats (May 26, 2022)

• THE CITY: Born Out of Neighborly Love, West Side ‘Open Hearts’ Spread Shelter Support Citywide (May 25, 2022)

• Riverdale Press: Adams touts success of homeless cleanup (May 21, 2022)

• City Limits: Eric Adams’ Revised Housing Budget ‘Just Not Enough,’ Despite Boost for Shelter Beds (May 2, 2022)

• 1010WINS: The City Is Dropping Plans To Open a Homeless Shelter In Chinatown. Sara Newman, Director of Organizing at Open Hearts Initiative, and Wellington Chen, Chinatown Partnership Leader, Discuss Both Sides of the Debate (April 29, 2022)

• NY1: Chinatown community board votes against building new homeless shelter (April 27, 2022)

• Gothamist: Faith leaders decry Mayor Adams' sweeps of homeless encampments (April 15, 2022)

• New York Daily News: Getting past fear to fight homelessness (April 1, 2022)

• Yahoo News: Hundreds gather in NYC Chinatown to protest the development of a new 24-hour homeless shelter (March 29, 2022)

• PIX11: Chinatown residents upset by proposed homeless shelter in their neighborhood (March 26, 2022)

• 1010 WINS: Chinatown residents protest plan for 7th homeless shelter, 'an affront to our community' (March 25, 2022)

• AsAmNews: Manhattan Chinatown residents protest planned new homeless shelters (March 25, 2022)

• AM New York: Not safe anywhere: NYC’s homeless residents, advocates decry dangerous shelter and street conditions (March 23, 2022)

• Gothamist: Violence keeps homelessness top of mind in Lower Manhattan (March 20, 2022)

• Our Town: Activists Back ‘Safe Havens’ For Homeless After Shootings (March 18, 2022)

• CBS New York: Shocking surveillance video captures shooting of sleeping homeless man (March 14, 2022)

• Patch: UWS Advocacy Org Holds Vigil For Shot And Killed Homeless Man (March 14, 2022)

• NY1: Advocates react to shootings of two homeless men (March 13, 2022)

• City Limits: Federal COVID Test Delivery Program Out of Reach to Some NYC Shelter Residents (January 20, 2022)

• The Riverdale Press: Advocates look to amplify voices supporting homeless neighbors (December 11, 2021)

• City Limits: NYC’s New Housing Voucher Rules Will Drastically Expand Income Eligibility for Renewals (November 1, 2021)

• The Body: Is This New York City’s Moment to Convert Failing Hotels Into Services-Rich Housing for Homeless Folks? (August 19, 2021)

• CBS New York: Advocates For The Homeless Stage Sleepout Outside Gracie Mansion (July 23, 2021)

• The New Republic: How an Upper West Side Hotel Came to Embody the City’s Failure on Homelessness (March 31, 2021)

• New York Times: No More Playing Nice: 5 Highlights From the Mayor’s Race (February 8, 2021)

• Filter Mag: Homeless NYC Residents Grill Mayoral Candidates on Housing Crisis (February 8, 2021)

• Our Town: Homeless Get a Seat at the Table (February 6, 2021)

• West Side Rag: Mayoral Candidates Grilled By People Who are Normally ‘Voiceless’ In Remarkable Forum (February 6, 2021)

• Gothamist: In Mayoral Forum, Homeless New Yorkers Demand Answers For A Longstanding Crisis (February 5, 2021)

• The Appeal: New York City Candidates Blast De Blasio’s Housing Record (February 5, 2021)

• Politico: Mayoral hopefuls face questions on homelessness from New Yorkers living in shelter (February 4, 2021)

• City and State: How Shams DaBaron became the ‘homeless hero’ (February 3, 2021)

• New York Post: Homeless Lucerne Hotel residents to host NYC mayoral candidate forum (January 27, 2021)

• USA Today: Shams DaBaron: From Homeless Hero to Housing Hero (December 14, 2020)

• CBS New York: Upper West Side Residents Join Lucerne Hotel To Send Message Of Community (December 13, 2020)

• CBS New York: Protesters Rally In Support Of Homeless Men Living In Lucerne Hotel On Upper West Side (November 29, 2020)

• amNewYork: Chalk drawings go round the corner in support of homeless at Manhattan’s Lucerne Hotel (November 29, 2020)

• ABC 7 : Volunteers hand out Thanksgiving meals to homeless men at Lucerne Hotel (November 26, 2020)

• WCBS: Advocates distribute over 400 Thanksgiving meals to homeless men living at Lucerne Hotel (November 26, 2020)

• New York Times: What Happened When Homeless Men Moved Into a Liberal Neighborhood (November 13, 2020)

• City Limits: More Than Long Lines: Barriers Homeless NYers Face When Voting (November 2, 2020)

• NY1: Judge Rules Homeless Men May Remain at the Lucerne Hotel For Now (October 19, 2020)

• The Nation: Will Deeper Segregation Be Bill de Blasio’s Legacy? (October 9, 2020)

• Amsterdam News: Homelessness on the rise amid shelter closures (October 1, 2020)

• New York Daily News: My homeless hotel neighbors: What it’s been like living in the Upper West Side’s Belleclaire (September 26, 2020)

• NBC 4: Removal of Homeless From Upper West Side Hotel Halted Temporarily by City (September 14, 2020)

• Gothamist: Hundreds Gather At Gracie Mansion To Protest De Blasio’s Decision To Evict Homeless Men From UWS Hotel (September 14, 2020)

• NBC 4: Protesters March to Mayor's Doorstep to Oppose Plan to Move Homeless Out of NYC Hotels (September 13, 2020)

• West Side Rag: People Make Art and Sleep Outside Homeless Shelter to Show ‘The Upper West Side is a Compassionate, Welcoming Place’ (August 30, 2020)

• ABC 7: Initiative welcomes homeless 'with open arms' on Upper West Side (August 30, 2020)

• Curbed: What’s Really Happening at Homeless Shelters on the Upper West Side (August 14, 2020)