CEO Karen Ford was recognized as an honoree on the Schneps Media Brooklyn Power List in March, 2026. Karen joined City Council members, business leaders, university presidents, and others among the honorees. To learn more about the Brooklyn Power List and find out who all the honorees were this year, please see the article here.
From growing families to new college graduates, finding affordable housing is a concern for all New Yorkers. Here are some resources that can help New Yorkers find affordable housing.
A Continuum of Care is a way of understanding services for homeless individuals as a connected system. In late 2025, the Federal government rescinded the existing funding rules for providing states with money for homeless services via the CoC. Nonprofit organizations were seriously concerned with the changes…
This year has been a particularly momentous one at HousingPlus. It was marked by the opening of a new building of supportive housing, as well as a new chapter, as we celebrated Founder Rita Zimmer’s retirement and the onboarding of Karen Ford. As we reflect on 2025 and consider what lies ahead, we picked the […]
Hear our top 3 takeaways from the event Building Economic Security: New York’s Response to Escalating Affordability. The event was an interesting and enlightening conversation about how we view poverty in America.
Our Fall 2025 edition of News & Highlights from HousingPlus shares the stories of two tenants whose lives transformed thanks to a new home after experiences in the justice system.
Today on the blog, we’ll answer FAQs and provide a brief explainer of the Good Cause Law and discuss some of the larger context for Good Cause Eviction in NYC.
For anyone working in housing advocacy, or for those whose neighborhoods may be current or future sites of supportive housing, these are some of the key takeaways from SEEN II.
In 2011, Dr. Jackie Copeland founded Black Philanthropy Month as a time to recognize Black-led change in communities and elevate the donor power of Black individuals and majority-Black institutions. Black Philanthropy Month (BPM) continues today, and this year’s theme for BPM is Sankofa Now: Remember, Reclaim, Rise. We sat down with Karen Ford, CEO of […]
