Department of Homeless Services

Homeless veterans displaced by Sandy from a shelter in LIC have moved into the Carroll Gardens shelter.

Mayor appointed Brad Gair, former deputy commissioner of OEM, as director of housing recovery operations.

Evacuees from Hurricane Sandy were sent to 15 remaining shelters around the city.

Housing Solutions USA promises a seven-person security guard staff and cameras throughout the facility. 

Elected officials sent a letter to the DHS commissioner demanding more time for community feedback.

A local church will begin housing the men who sleep in local parks and streets in time for winter.

The city is seeking proposals for 50,000 square feet of space in the Bedford-Atlantic Armory

Elected officials made a last attempt to stop a move by the city to house 400 homeless adults uptown.

The city's 200-bed Greenpoint shelter has posted hiring ads for a slated September opening.

A judge blocked the city from implementing a new homeless shelter policy pursued by Mayor Bloomberg.

Greenpoint homeless advocates say the city's funding offer to open a shelter was too vague for takers.

The city sued single-room occupancy building owners who rented rooms to tourists.

The City Council voted Tuesday to sue the Bloomberg administration to halt a new homeless intake policy.

The policy, which was set to take effect Monday, would require homeless people seeking to shelter to prove they have nowhere else to go.

City Council members slammed the Bloomberg administration Wednesday for a new homeless shelter policy that forces those seeking help to prove they have nowhere else to go.