Karen Yi

The digital divide in the Bronx is the worst among all the boroughs, a new report found.

In 2023, the City Council required all homeless shelters for families with children to provide one mental health professional for every 50 families.

The new federal spending bill cuts funding for SNAP-Ed, a program that aims to encourage healthy diets and promote nutritious food.

How Black and Latino children can be unnecessarily investigated in three charts.

Project Renewal’s mobile clinics help vulnerable New Yorkers get the medication they need.

The city says it will require new shelter operators to provide air conditioning.

The city is supposed to offer homeless people a chance to store their items during sweeps.

The Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the number of people seeking shelter who are not migrants increased nearly 12% last year.

The city doesn’t require shelter to provide Wi-Fi for its residents but the proposed legislation could change that.

The experiences of a Black and Latina mother with the Administration for Children’s Services are among more than a dozen stories highlighted by the Bronx Defenders.

An estimated 2,000 babies were born in shelters between July 2023 and June 2024.

Supportive housing providers receive city and state funding to house formerly homeless residents, some of whom have mental health issues.

Early results from a cash transfer program that launched last year shows most of the youth say they’re stably housed.

The Center for an Urban Future said a larger share of New Yorkers are now 65 years or older and many have no safety net.

About a third of young people who age out of New York City’s foster care system are being forced to stay either in foster care or in group homes, the report states.

A new report finds that low-income Black and Hispanic New Yorkers are disproportionately targeted in child welfare investigations, with long-term financial implications for those under scrutiny.

Benefit recipients and their advocates say the work requirement can be onerous for low-income New Yorkers to navigate, and could cut them off when they need help most.

A new bill would double the number of toilets across the city.

A program that helps working parents afford child care could end for thousands of families.

Under the program, the city is eliminating one of the biggest hurdles developers face when it comes to building or buying buildings: money.