Mirela Iverac

Several dozen Puerto Rican families fleeing the aftermath of Hurricane Maria are staying in hotels in New York. For some, it replaced the shelter option.

The federal government is paying for thirty-four families who fled Puerto Rico after Hurrican Maria to stay in hotels across New York.

Bill de Blasio began his term as mayor promising that new strategies would solve the growing homelessness problem. Then reality struck.

Some immigration advocates say the immigration policy measures the Trump administration wants to implement in exchange for legislation that would protect Dreamers are unacceptable.

Scott Stringer's latest assessment of the burdens of subway riders used federal wage data to calculate dollar figures.

Faced with stubbornly high levels of homelessness, the de Blasio administration is offering to pay 12 months' rent up front for homeless families who find an apartment outside the city.

The results followed the national trends, according to the latest census figures.

A Harlem-based non-profit is now leading efforts to reach out to the homeless living on the streets of Manhattan.

The number of homeless people living on the city’s streets increased by 40 percent according to an annual survey.  

After facing a round of criticism, HUD denied a report that a Trump family employee without experience in running housing programs was appointed a new regional administrator. 

So-called "cluster sites" are expensive for the city, and often unhealthy for residents.

A judge has cleared the way for the city to open a homeless shelter in Crown Heights, a decision that has implications for Mayor de Blasio’s homelessness strategy.

Elected officials and parents rallied on the Upper East Side Sunday to ask the city to provide more prekindergarten seats.

A Brooklyn judge told the de Blasio administration to negotiate with Crown Heights residents who sued to block a shelter for homeless men.

Dozens of residents showed up at a town hall meeting Thursday evening to oppose the opening of a new family shelter in their neighborhood.

It's one of the first shelters that was supposed to open under Mayor de Blasio's plan to pen 90 new shelters across the city over the next five years.

Neighbors argued that Crown Heights is already saturated. But the city says it's confident they will be allowed to proceed after a hearing next week.

The shelter in Crown Heights was supposed to be the first to open in the mayor's plan to build 90 new shelters across the city.

The mayor plans to help the homeless stay in the neighborhoods they come from and distribute shelters more fairly across the city. Can he do both at once?

The number of people in the city’s homeless shelter system is at a historic high. That’s partly because the number of people being found eligible for shelter is higher.