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2018 Press Releases

December 4, 2018
Affordable Homes for Homeless Families: City Advances Plan to Convert Cluster Units to Permanent Housing

October 24, 2018
City Programs Help More Than 100,000 New Yorkers Exit Shelter or Avoid Shelter Since 2014

September 26, 2018
NYCDHS Partners with CUNY and the Financial Clinic to Expand Economic Coaching and Counseling Program to Adult Shelters Citywide

July 19, 2018
City Proposes Single Unified Rental Assistance Program to Streamline and Simplify Rehousing Process

July 12, 2018
Girl Scouts of Greater New York Troop 6000 Now Serving More Than 500 Girls and Women Across Five Boroughs

June 20, 2018
City Sues Landlords for Discrimination Against New Yorkers Using Rental Assistance

June 19, 2018
Survey Estimates Six Percent Fewer Homeless New Yorkers on the Streets

June 14, 2018
De Blasio Administration Announces New Task Force To Prevent And End Youth Homelessness In New York City

June 5, 2018
HOME-STAT Reaches New Milestone: More Than 1,800 Unsheltered Homeless New Yorkers Helped Off Streets

April 13, 2018
Children's Museum of Manhattan Expands Partnership with City's Department of Homeless Services

February 26, 2018
De Blasio Administration Reduces Cluster Units By 42 Percent

February 15, 2018
ICYMI: Department of Homeless Services Announces New DHSPD Training Academy at Bedford-Atlantic Men's Shelter

January 17, 2018
HOME-STAT Reaches New Milestone: Nearly 1,500 Unsheltered Homeless New Yorkers Helped Off Streets

January 15, 2018
NYC Department of Homeless Services Calls on New Yorkers to Take Part in Citywide Effort to Survey City's Unsheltered Population on Monday, January 22

January 2, 2018
De Blasio Administration Expands NYPD-DHS Joint Homeless Outreach Efforts