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Housing advocates, Catholic Charities staff and political leaders gathered in Albany March 11 to address skyrocketing rents that keep vulnerable New Yorkers on edge. “We have been very proud to provide a great deal of assistance to the most vulnerable and poorest New Yorkers,” said Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director of Catholic...

Even in an unusually warm winter, the snow and ice eventually arrive. It’s the afternoon of Feb. 27, and Natasha Lafontant is awaiting the first-of-the-year snowstorm expected that evening which will eventually drop six inches of white stuff in the area. As the social service supervisor for the Warming Center...

Hundreds of volunteers took to the city streets to count and help the homeless Kaitlyn Colgan of the Young Adult Ministry of the Archdiocese took her concern for the homeless to the streets of Manhattan the night of Jan. 24. As a volunteer for Catholic Charities New...

Expert Panel Gathered to Discuss the Issues Before City’s Annual HOPE Count of Those Living on the Streets A Catholic Charities New York-sponsored panel discussion on homelessness on Jan. 24 covered the seemingly intractable problem from the personal to the big picture of possible solutions. In a question-and-answer session,...

Encore Community Services, an agency which serves the needs of seniors in Manhattan’s Theatre District, presented its Community Impact Award to Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese, at its June 21 fundraiser. At the event Encore director Jeremy Kaplan noted the...

By Peter Feuerherd Cynthia Contreras’ cellphone went off the weekend of Jan. 15, soon after Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature allowed the emergency Covid-relief rental eviction moratorium to expire. That decision, made in Albany, reverberated 140 miles south at the Betances Houses in the Bronx, where...

Thousands of New Yorkers, emerging from the Covid pandemic, are behind on their rent. The Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP), a state subsidy program for tenants and landlords, has helped but has been marked by slow responses and has expired. The...

How Catholic Charities New York makes an impact on the homeless mentally ill. Cardinal Timothy Dolan paid a visit to Catholic Charities New York’s Beacon of Hope in the Bronx, a program providing housing to people struggling with serious mental health challenges. He toured recently renovated rooms, blessed a Rosary offered...

When New York’s housing crisis hit home for Carla (a pseudonym) from the Bronx, she turned to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York for help. It is a decision she does not regret. “Right now, things are going great,” she said, describing life with her four children in...

47,045 people in the city’s shelter system at start of July 2021. 16,981 homeless individuals are single adults. 9,000 homeless people were housed in temporary hotel emergency shelters. Now that Covid-19 restrictions have lifted for most of New York City, the fate of the homeless is uncertain. While the pandemic triggered...