Every year in March, we take a moment to look back at what you helped us accomplish through Breaking Ground's outreach and housing programs in the most recent calendar year. In 2025, you helped to ensure that we could serve nearly 12,000 vulnerable New Yorkers. That includes thousands of people who are currently living unsheltered on the streets, people who are working with us toward housing while utilizing our drop-in center or transitional housing, and people who have found a home in the nearly 20 buildings where Breaking Ground provides permanently affordable apartments throughout the City.
Breaking Ground’s work begins by meeting people where they are. Our Street to Home and Connect to Care programs reached over 5,300 individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness last year and helped over 1,200 to come indoors to a transitional or permanent housing placement. Crucially, we expanded our Queens Drop-In Center to serve up to 75 people daily in September, and we were able to add a marvelous hardscaped outdoor area thanks to an amazing fundraising effort by the Breaking Ground Junior Board!
Safe havens are among the most important resources for those who have been living on the streets for long periods, providing an immediate option to come indoors while continuing to work towards securing permanent housing. In 2025, Breaking Ground served over 1,500 unique individuals across our 738 beds in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With another 106 beds that opened in February, we have tripled our Safe Haven Capacity since 2021.
Permanent supportive and affordable housing remain the core of our mission at Breaking Ground, and 2025 marked another year of progress in expanding those crucial resources, with:
- the completion of 173 permanent supportive and affordable apartments at Sutphin Senior Housing;
- the beginning of construction at 1760 Third Avenue where we are converting a former dormitory into 434 units of supportive and affordable housing;
- the closing of construction financing on Phase 1 our Kingsboro Vital Brooklyn project in East Flatbush; and
- the acquisition of the Stewart Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, which will become 579 supportive and affordable apartments by 2029.
With more than 2,000 units of housing in our pipeline, Breaking Ground is working every day to expand opportunities for vulnerable New Yorkers to have lasting stability.
We are pleased to release our full 2025 Impact Report below. Thanks to you, our community of supporters, we will continue to envision and build a future where everyone has a home.
