The Callahan consent decree was signed 43 years ago, and not a day has gone by since then that we have not had to fight tooth and nail to get the city to comply.

Yesterday afternoon in a downtown courtroom, the Aug. 26, 1981 consent decree called Callahan vs. Carey lived on. Despite Mayor Adams' lawyers rightly asking the court last spring to modify the ...

Hayes found Callahan while he was sleeping in Manhattan’s Bowery neighborhood, according to the Coalition for the Homeless’s website. After intense negotiations, the city settled the suit in 1981 with ...

Mayor Eric Adams is absolutely right: The right to shelter can’t be for everyone from everywhere at any time. On Tuesday, he moved to suspend the Callahan consent decree — which created the ...

On Friday, after months of closed-door mediation and negotiations to modify New York City’s right to shelter, the Legal Aid Society, Coalition for the Homeless, and city officials emerged with a deal.

The administration first filed to amend the consent decree in May and has been in negotiations for months with the state and the Legal Aid Society, which represents homeless New Yorkers. This week, ...