The comedian has been friends with Elizabeth “Mimi” Haist since the 1990s and later helped her out of homelessness
Monday, May 20, 2013 7:17 PM UTCThey're hiring social workers, nurses and other outreach workers to serve their neediest visitors
Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 1:09 PM UTCWhile the mayor's net worth is up to $27 billion, 21,000 NYC children spent each night of January in a shelter
Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 4:38 PM UTCBut the recently ended "code blue" policy has left more homeless families than ever sleeping outside in the cold
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 2:03 PM UTCI was in sociology. Now that I'm pregnant and helping disabled homeless people, I feel strangely blocked creatively
Monday, Feb 11, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 14A new Yale study looks at the demographics of homeless vets and finds care lacking
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 4:20 PM UTCThe realities of life on New York streets are not captured by one heartwarming photo
Monday, Dec 3, 2012 5:15 PM UTC 21While campaigns against police brutality struggle for attention, one heartwarming NYPD-promoted photo goes viral
Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 6:44 PM UTC 19The Obama Administration has promised to eliminate veteran homelessness by 2015
Monday, Nov 12, 2012 1:40 PM UTCCities stretch resources, but many people will face the elements without shelter
Monday, Oct 29, 2012 7:26 PM UTCJustin Timberlake apologizes for a friend's gift -- a film that mocks the homeless
Friday, Oct 26, 2012 6:55 PM UTC 13Graphic surveillance video shows cops strike, kick and pepper-spray shirtless, shoeless Ehud Halevi VIDEO
Monday, Oct 15, 2012 8:25 PM UTC 46Orange County cracks down on homelessness
Monday, Oct 8, 2012 2:15 PM UTCCoalition for the Homeless blames Mayor Michael Bloomberg's policies for 20,000 children sleeping in shelters
Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012 8:00 PM UTCA death at Occupy NOLA leaves protesters questioning the motives behind the city's closure of a nearby tent city
Saturday, Nov 19, 2011 2:00 PM UTC 18Does the economic justice movement include the chronically poor? How can it not? VIDEO
Friday, Nov 4, 2011 11:45 AM UTC 17
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