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In order to create healthy and just communities, VOCAL-NY is driving action on several issue areas that affect low-income people living with HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness. To do this, we come prepared with our lived experience and the facts.

Search and sort through our reports, press statements, and other resources below.

January 5, 2024
The 111 undersigned organizations write to express our strong disappointment with your letter to the Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board rejecting their recommendation to use funds to support an Overdose...
December 1, 2023
Solving Ongoing Crises of Homelessness, Overdose and Criminalization by Building Safe and Thriving Communities 2024 Legislative Session The intersecting issues of the homelessness and overdose crises are at record levels,...
August 24, 2023
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, New York ranks third in the nation in exonerated wrongful convictions. The National Registry lists 326 known exonerations. This statistic shows both that...
August 17, 2023
In a letter to Eric Adams, we are again calling on him to address the growing crisis of Rikers Island and at the City’s other jails by moving forward with...
August 14, 2023
VOCAL-NY is proud to join a list of more than 130 organizations representing advocates and experts from public health, overdose prevention, and drug policy across the nation in releasing a...
August 9, 2023
Rikers Island has been a hotbed for humanitarian violations for decades. Every year for the past decade, at least 10 people have died as a result of conditions on Rikers...
May 10, 2023
We write to you as 73 organizations working on the front lines of New York State’s heart-wrenching overdose crisis. The overdose crisis is a kitchen-table issue that affects every corner...
April 13, 2023
We entered 2022 riding the highs of the previous year, our most successful New YorkState legislative session ever. We knew we had our work cut out for us. Stateand city...
March 8, 2023
Overdose Prevention Centers (OPCs) – also known as safer injecting facilities or safer consumption spaces – are controlled health care settings where people can safely use pre-obtained drugs under clinical...
February 15, 2023
Within Mayor Eric Adam’s first year in office, he has failed to aggressively address the crisis of homelessness that the administration inherited. The Mayor has failed to provide the people...
February 1, 2023
After 30 years of rampant displacement, gentrification, and commodification of our state's communities, the housing and homelessness crisis has never been worse. Rents across our state are at an all-time...
January 26, 2023
People living in New York City deserve to caring & compassionate local government. VOCAL-NY released the following platform of demands for the New York City Council to adopt and make...
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