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Westhab’s 2026 Celebration Dinner was an inspiring evening of connection and purpose, uniting our community to celebrate 45 years of impact, recognize dedicated honorees, and fuel life-changing work.
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Westhab’s Fort Greene Family Center was featured in Business Insider, highlighting how our purpose-built, 11-story shelter is helping families experiencing homelessness regain stability. The center offers apartment-style units with private kitchens and bathrooms, along with on-site support to help parents enroll kids in school, secure transportation, and move toward permanent housing.
This article, originally published by The Journal News (lohud), highlights Westhab’s supportive housing model and its impact in Yonkers and across the Lower Hudson Valley. Developments like Summit on Hudson combine affordable apartments with on-site services to help residents move from homelessness to stability, but supportive housing faces funding and policy challenges as homelessness rises statewide.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Westhab Closes On Financing to Create 81 Affordable Homes in Haverstraw, Rockland County Haverstraw, NY – December 22, 2025 – As New York grapples with a statewide affordable housing crisis, Yonkers-based nonprofit housing developer Westhab, Inc. is partnering with the Village of Haverstraw to turn an underused municipal village parking lot into … Continued
Westhab’s Junior Board is demonstrating what the next generation of changemakers can do! Their annual Toast to Home event raised over $78,000 to support housing and programs for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.
As Westhab continues expanding its impact across the region, we’re proud to announce new leadership that will advance our mission to build communities and change lives.
Westhab announces the opening of the Fort Greene Family Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The 11-story, 105-unit facility provides transitional housing for some of New York’s most vulnerable families with children.
In this op-ed, Westhab CEO Rich Nightingale urges New Yorkers to respond to homelessness with compassion—not resistance.