Improving the lives of NYC’s women and children for over 40 years
Win provides safe housing and critical services to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives and break the cycle of homelessness.
Last year, Win served over 10,300 homeless people
Shelter limits aren’t just inhumane – they’re ineffective, bad policy.
It’s time to turn away from stopgap measures that don’t work and focus on the long-term solutions that we know do, like expanding housing vouchers and upholding the right to shelter.
We need compassionate and humane solutions to the homelessness crisis - not criminalization, sweeps, or harsh penalties. From NYC all the way to the Supreme Court, our government must recognize that the only appropriate response to homelessness is housing.
On June 19th, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas bearing the news that more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were legally free - 2.5 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Today, Black Americans represent a disproportionate percentage of our country’s homeless population as a direct result of slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, discriminatory lending practices, mass incarceration, and more.
Our fight for housing justice is inextricably linked with the fight for Black liberation and racial justice. On this #Juneteenth and year-round, we’re committed to centering historically marginalized groups as we work to end homelessness and poverty.