An annual vigil honors the New Yorkers who died living on the streets and in the city’s shelters. “Every life lost to homelessness was preventable,” the event’s organizers said. “People do not die because they lack resilience or will.”
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Urban Pathways Publishes Article on Importance of More Safe Havens
New York should fund 5,000 more Safe Haven beds in the next state and city budgets, roughly one for every person the city found sleeping outside in its 2025 HOPE count. In our pol ...
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Urban Pathways to Convene NYC and State Leaders on Expanding Safe Havens to Address Street Homelessness
Urban Pathways, a New York City nonprofit organization that has been combating homelessness through housing and supportive services for more than 50 years, will host a Legislativ ...
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Urban Pathways Joins State Senator Erik Bottcher and Assemblymember Gabriella Romero to Unveil the Build More, Get More Act
Urban Pathways CEO Gary P. Jenkins said, "Urban Pathways commends the leadership of State Senator Erik Bottcher and Assemblymember Gabriella Romero in putting forth this pioneerin ...
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Chelsea Beacon affordable housing development at former Bayview Correction Facility breaks ground
Urban Pathways and partners celebrate the groundbreaking of the Chelsea Beacon development project, where Urban Pathways will be building out the entire third floor to provide 15 ...
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New transit-oriented Cypress Hills project has 200 affordable units
"The property will also include 10,000 square feet of community space operated by BACDYS, along with on-site supportive services from the non-profit Urban Pathways."
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A new Trump order could upend the way NYC treats homeless people. Here’s what to know.
"It’s a policy change that upends the approach New York has taken to housing homeless people for years: offering stable housing without requiring people to meet sobriety rules o ...
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I was homeless. Trump’s plan to criminalize people like me won’t make you safer.
By Rob Robinson, Urban Pathways Board Member. "Homelessness taught me that being unhoused is not a personal, moral failure. Homelessness is a market failure, a housing problem."
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Giving homeless people stable housing was federal policy for decades. Trump is ending it.
“Housing First has failed because we haven’t fully invested in Housing First,” Shack from Urban Pathways said. “You can’t solve the problem without the resources.”
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Funding Boost Could Fulfill City’s Pledge to Expand Housing for New Yorkers Who Cycle Between Shelter & Jail
“Some of our folks have been in [prison] for decades. They don’t know how to use computers. They don’t know how to use the MTA,” Clark said. “It just looks a little diff ...
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Urban Pathways CEO named to “Above & Beyond” Social Service list
Urban Pathways CEO Frederick Shack has been named to City & State’s 2025 Above & Beyond Social Service list, recognizing leaders making a lasting impact in New York.
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Urban Pathways’ Fred Shack and Gary Jenkins share Housing First model
Urban Pathways CEO Fred Shack and CAO Gary Jenkins joined NY1’s In Focus with Cheryl Wills to discuss the Housing First model, the growing need for supportive housing, and how i ...
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Opinion: It’s Time to Pass the Homeless Protection Act
"The stark truth becomes clear: violence is a constant threat for people experiencing homelessness. And as often is the case, stigma distorts the truth. Stigma drives the narrativ ...
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