Housing
CCC Testimony: Oversight: Conditions and Operations in the Department of Homeless Services Family Shelters
CCC testified about reducing family homelessness and improving conditions for families in shelter at a City Council General Welfare Hearing on February 27, 2014. Currently, a record number of children are living in homeless shelters for increasingly lo …
CCC Testimony: New York State Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Hearing on the New York State Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Human Services Executive Budget Proposals
CCC submitted testimony about the impact the Governor’s Executive Budget would have on children and families at the February 4, 2014 joint Senate/Assembly Hearing on the Executive Budget for State Fiscal Year 2014-2015. CCC’s testimony commended the Go …
CCC Kicks Off 2014 with New Tools to Advocate for NYC’s Children
We have added two new features to Keeping Track Online that allow users to explore our hundreds of indicators of child well-being in new ways. Want to directly compare poverty rates for Black and Latino children in East Tremont (B06), the Bronx, and ci …
CCC’s Summary of New York State Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Executive Budget Proposals
The New York State Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 proposes to invest in early childhood education, education, and after-schools programs, and to establish a commission to make recommendations on how to raise the age of criminal responsibili …
Housing Subsidies: One Key to Addressing Homelessness in New York City
Helping homeless children and families and reducing the number of children living in homeless shelters are critical issues for the de Blasio administration to tackle. We are releasing an issue brief today with recommendations for creating a new housing …
Housing Subsidies: One Key to Addressing Homelessness in New York City
Since New York City eliminated its large-scale housing subsidy program, the number of children and families living in homeless shelters has increased dramatically and families are staying in the shelter system for longer lengths of time. Currently, ove …