New York — Today, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, New Destiny Housing, and Enterprise Community Partners issued the following statement on behalf of the Family Homelessness Coalition in response to the conceptual state budget agreement:

“The Family Homelessness Coalition is extremely disappointed by the failure to enact and fund the Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP) in the ‘conceptual agreement’ on the New York State budget. This program, which has broad consensus among stakeholders in the housing and homelessness fields, would have represented the most meaningful action to reduce homelessness in New York. The announced framework profoundly fails to provide New York families, including domestic violence survivors, with the immediate homelessness prevention measures they desperately need.”

This statement is from the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Enterprise Community Partners and New Destiny Housing on behalf of the Family Homelessness Coalition.

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ABOUT

The Family Homelessness Coalition (FHC) is composed of 20 organizations representing service and housing providers and children’s advocacy organizations. FHC is united by the goal of launching a coordinated, collaborative, multi-agency effort focused on preventing family homelessness, improving the well-being of children and families in shelters, and supporting the long-term stability of families with children who leave shelters.