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VOA-NNJ testified before the New Jersey Assembly Budget Committee on the urgent need to address the state’s affordable housing crisis, applauding Governor Sherrill’s proposed restoration of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, while calling for expanded investments in housing programs, state agencies, and nonprofit partners to ensure all New Jerseyans can live in safe, stable, and affordable homes. 

VOA-GNY testified before the NYC Council on the City’s responsibility to prevent homelessness wherever possible and provide high-quality, dignified shelter when it is not. We emphasized the need to fully implement and expand CityFHEPS and preserve safety net services that New Yorkers rely on to stay housed.

Denise Carter-Pruden writes about the need to better serve single adults without children in domestic violence shelters.

VOA-GNY testified before the NYC Council on legislation to improve how homeless New Yorkers interact with City systems, including supporting measures to reduce erroneous benefit and shelter denials and recommending stronger data sharing and coordination amongst street outreach teams.

VOA-GNY delivered testimony to the New York Housing Committee on priorities including equitable access to domestic violence shelters, expansion of the Housing Access Voucher Program, increased supportive housing funding, and fair wages for human service workers.

VOA-GNY delivered testimony to the New York Housing Committee on priorities including equitable access to domestic violence shelters, expansion of the Housing Access Voucher Program, increased supportive housing funding, and fair wages for human service workers.

The SAFE Shelter Act would improve shelter access for single adult survivors without children.

Simon Kawitzky, Senior Vice President of Real Estate at VOA-GNY, is among the top leaders finding solutions to the city’s housing crisis.