Housing Works: Housing Prevents AIDS. Housing Improves Health.

Community Story

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  Celebrating Sustainably with Michael Sherman

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  Healing Through Art at Housing Works

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  Housing Works’ Larry Bryant Takes International Stage

• Donation Rocks: Tony Award Winners Donate Their Duds

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  Robyn Schwartz

  When my husband and I moved to Genova, Italy in 2008 , there were a lot of things I had to give up—my fulfilling nonprofit job, my lovely Park Slope neighborhood, proximity to family and friends, bagels (although I eventually learned how to make them myself)—the list goes on. And high on that litany of New York-centric things I dearly missed was my weekly shift at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.
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  Sara Depczenski

  hen it comes to Proust, world travel or fashion history, Sara Depczenski can talk anyone under the table; and when on the topic of Housing Works – “the hub of creative forces in NYC” – Sara is undoubtedly one of the organization’s biggest cheerleaders.
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  Annie Cofone, Gramercy Thrift Store Volunteer

  Moving to New York City is never a straight line — or if it is, say like moving from Bloomington, IN straight to lower Manhattan, the small matter of culture shock and anonymity could be a bit daunting.
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  Ken Holland

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  Derek Warburton

  Lifestyle Guru Derek Warburton has been a fashionista all his life. After leaving his mark in high school, by creating fashions for school projects, he moved from New Hampshire to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. After college, Warburton styled and produced his first benefit, Fashion for Aids, a charity fashion show using vintage clothes to highlight the 1920s through the 1970s. With his styling/production accomplishments under his belt, he relocated to Boston, MA....