The city’s real-estate market will be crippled by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to stop clearing homeless encampments, ...

The candidates’ views on addressing homelessness in New York City differ vastly, with calls to expand mental health services, overhaul the shelter system and change policing. By Anna Kodé More than ...

The Trump administration is pushing a new approach to America’s homeless crisis, favoring shelters and rehabilitation centers ...

New Yorkers in several neighborhoods where Mayor Eric Adams won handily on a platform of reducing crime through increased policing now say they’re ready to embrace policies meant to minimize NYPD ...

Kevin Atlanta was homeless until this summer. NY1 met him at a shelter in Queens — a facility run by the nonprofit group Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) similar to where he had stayed — a place that ...

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says: “It can’t be the police department always being called to do everything.” Tisch’s comment comes as she announced arrests in two random attacks, including an ...

A new city-run temporary housing facility to provide shelter and medical care to individuals after a psychiatric hospitalization will start to accept tenants this week, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.

President Trump wants far more homeless people forced into mandatory "long-term addiction" for mental health treatment. Critics say forcing Americans off the streets into institutions would be risky ...