• HIV/AIDS

    HIV/AIDS

    VOCAL-NY has been working to prevent homelessness for 10,000 low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and their families through a state affordable housing bill since 2006. New York’s rental assistance program for low-income and homeless ...

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  • SYRINGE ACCESS

    SYRINGE ACCESS

    NY Users Union: Fight to Expand Syringe Access to Prevent HIV and Hepatitis C VOCAL-NY Users Union members won a campaign to expand syringe access and stop unlawful police harassment in 2010. Nearly two decades after ...

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  • Restoring Voting Rights

    Restoring Voting Rights

    VOCAL-NY Parolees, our prison and parole organizing project, is working to restore voting rights for New Yorkers who have been released from prison and are on parole.

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  • Economy & Democracy

    Economy & Democracy

    We are working to build a new economy based on a bottom line that puts human dignity before profits, holds Wall Street accountable for creating jobs and preserving public services, and ensures broad participation in ...

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Conference 2012

SAVE THE DATE: Monday, May 7th 2012 from 9am-3pm Location: Murphy Institute at CUNY - 25 West 43rd Street 18th Floor REGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Housing for people living with HIV/AIDS is essential for improving health and prevention outcomes.  The conference will include presentations by senior government officials and housing providers discussing the most important [...]

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Doar graphic updated

Contact: Jaron Benjamin, (718) 864-3932, jaron@vocal-ny.org HIV-Positive New Yorkers & Allies Plan March On HRA To Protest Housing Policies, Will Demand Commissioner Robert Doar Take Drug Test In Response to New Screening Policy HRA Commissioner Under Fire For Saying He Would Get “Tough” On Homeless and Unstably Housed People Living With HIV/AIDS & Proposing More [...]

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Holding the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) Accountable

The City Council General Welfare Committee held a hearing into recent changes at the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) on February 8, 2012 that we believe will increase homelessness among low-income New Yorkers.  The hearing was covered by the Associated Press, “NY policymakers grilled over HIV/AIDS housing help,” which quoted VOCAL-NY’s Board Chair Wanda Hernandez criticizing one of [...]

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Associated Press: NY policymakers grilled over HIV/AIDS housing help Feb. 8, 2012 | Cristian Salazar, AP (Excerpt – read the full story here) NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Council members grilled policymakers at a packed hearing Wednesday over recent changes to public assistance policies that they worry could lead to increased homelessness and risky [...]

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