Resources
Protecting Homeless New Yorkers and Ending the Statewide Housing Crisis: An Emergency Response Plan
January 30, 2026
For over 25 years VOCAL-NY has fought to end homelessness. Policy experts, lawyers, service providers, and New Yorkers with direct experience with homelessness have called upon city and state governments...
DCS Sign-On Letter for Speaker Menin
January 26, 2026
2026 State Legislative Platform
December 12, 2025
This legislative session opens under the shadow of severe federal cuts to housing, healthcare, and food assistance — decisions that will deepen inequality and worsen homelessness, overdose deaths, and poverty...
2026 Amended ChalleNging Wrongful Convictions Act
December 9, 2025
SNAP Sign-On Letter: Protect SNAP
October 28, 2025
As 257 organizations, service providers, churches, and unions representing millions of New Yorkers, we write with urgency for the State to provide up-front funding for the SNAP program in New...
VOCAL-NY 2024 Annual Report
October 15, 2025
VOCAL-NY was built on the belief that the people closest to the crisis—low-income people impacted by HIV/AIDS, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and homelessness—are the ones leading the fight...
2025 VOCAL-NY Civil Rights Union Platform
January 31, 2025
The VOCAL-NY CRU is building a base of directly impacted people and developing them to lead our fight to both change the narratives around mass incarceration and advance concrete policy...
Effective Solutions to Immediately Address New York’s Statewide Homelessness Crisis
January 29, 2025
To solve homelessness, it is vital to tackle the interconnected eviction and affordability crises. There are countless rent-burdened households that are one paycheck away from homelessness and struggling to afford...
Deliver for the People
December 18, 2024
The election is over. We don’t need any more campaign ads. We need politicians to deliver. Download the Demands Here
2025 State Legislative Platform
November 20, 2024
Effective Solutions to Immediately Address the Ongoing Humanitarian and Political Crises of Homelessness, Substance Use, and Public Safety The intersecting issues of homelessness, the overdose crisis, and unmet mental health...