TUNE IN 11/13: How The Next Administration Can Support Families Experiencing Housing Instability

Join Citizens Committee for Children and the Family Homelessness Coalition Wednesday for an online panel discussion, moderated by City Limits, on policy-based solutions to New York’s housing crisis.

A family outside the city’s congregate shelter for immigrants at Floyd Bennett Field (now closed) at the end of November 2023. (Adi Talwar/City Limits)

On Jan. 1, Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as the city’s next mayor, ushering in a new era of leadership at City Hall, and at the agencies that carry out the work of city government.

The incoming administration faces familiar—but pressing—challenges. More than 100,000 people sleep in the city’s shelter system each month, the majority of whom are families and children. Many more face housing insecurity: nearly half of all renter households are rent burdened, and evictions are rising again to approach pre-pandemic levels.

On Wednesday, Citizens Committee for Children* and the Family Homelessness Coalition will host a webinar on these issues and how the city’s next leaders can solve them. The event, “Safeguarding Well-Being: Supports for Families Experiencing Housing Instability” will include a panel discussion moderated by City Limits’ Executive Editor Jeanmarie Evelly.

Speakers will include:

Alice Bufkin, associate executive director for data and policy, Citizens’ Committee for Children

Gina Cappuccitti, senior director of housing access and stability services for New Destiny Housing

Kadisha Davis, narrative change lead at the Family Homelessness Coalition’s Family Action Board

Vangie Gonzales, policy lead at the Family Homelessness Coalition’s Family Action Board

Maya Jasinska, director of policy and research for Win NYC

Jennifer Pringle, director of Project LIT at Advocates for Children

Joscelyn Truitt, vice president of empowerment with Riseboro

The program will kick off Wednesday at noon. You can register for free here.

*CCC is among City Limits’ funders.

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