A lawsuit aims to preserve a one-time rent payment to landlords to hold apartments for prospective tenants while paperwork is ...

A man who lured homeless, drug-addicted women into performing commercial sex acts has pleaded guilty to federal charges, U.S.

A woman, 23, was pushed in front of an approaching subway train in New York City by a homeless man but miraculously survived with injuries to her hands, face and knees ...

Since 2018, state spending on hotels for unsheltered individuals has tripled. Conditions are often inadequate and some worry ...

The increase was almost entirely focused in the New York City area which saw an influx of asylum seekers the report stated.

After following a woman up six flights of stairs, into her apartment and brutally stabbing her to death, an unhoused New York City man was sentenced to at least 30 years behind bars for the ...

On a New York City subway car in the early morning of Dec. 22, a man set a sleeping woman on fire in a brutal act of senseless violence. Her name was Debrina Kawam; she was a 57-year-old woman ...

Homelessness decreased in New York between 2020 and 2022, but since 2022 and the end of pandemic era eviction moratoriums, it has increased faster than the rest of the nation, more than doubling ...

'Homeless' woman allegedly set on fire sleeping on New York City train identified as Debrina Kawam, 57, from New Jersey. Police have shared a major development in the horror death of a woman who ...

In all, 6.4% of New York public school students were homeless in 2022-23, whether living on the streets, in a shelter, in a hotel or doubled up in the residence of family or friends.