Department of Homeless Services

A new policy announced by the Department of Homeless Services will require shelter seekers to prove that they have nowhere else to stay.

Homeless people continue to flock to Broadway's plazas, but advocates say intervention takes patience and time.

Benches that homeless slept on at an Upper East Side co-op plaza have been donated to a homeless shelter's garden.

Neighbors of a soon-to-open homeless shelter reiterated concerns at a rowdy community meeting Tuesday.

Locals want the men's shelter out of the former Bellevue Psychiatric building, but they're still helping the homeless.

The city is renting rooms for homeless men in buildings with serious safety violations.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal will introduce legislation to stop the city from moving homeless into "illegal hotels."

The city tried to shut down two single-room occupancy hotels in 2007, now it's renting rooms from them.

Department of Homeless Services officials skipped a meeting about a controversial homeless shelter.

Tenants at the Hotel Alexander have been offered $50,000 and three years rent if they leave their homes.

Residents want the original Bellevue Building redeveloped and the homeless shelter moved.

The Bowery Residents Committee is moving forward with its spring opening of a controversial Chelsea shelter.

The city is being criticized for failures in a rent subsidy program designed to keep families out of shelters.

With the ranks of the homeless growing, neighborhood leaders balk at plans to designate more space for shelters.

Community leaders are anxious over a plan to place a $15 million homeless shelter on a largely residential strip.