At St. Paul's Chapel (just south of City Hall Park on Broadway at Fulton), Thursday evening, considering joining the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing for a convocation and overnight vigil at City Hall for housing justice. The convocation, which runs from 6:30PM to 8:30PM, will honor and recognize the work such groups as Coalition for the Homeless, The Pratt Center for Community & Economic Development, The Supportive Housing Network and Picture The Homeless.

Following the convocation will be an overnight Vigil for Housing Justice in City Hall Park starting at 9PM and concluding at 7AM -- perhaps so they'll be gone as Deputy Mayors and their aides stagger into work. You can register for the vigil online here or just show up. (As Woody Allen reminds us, 90% of life is just showing up).

The convocation and vigil presents a quandary, however for fans of Grey's Anatomy, like me -- a two-hour special of innuendo and sexual bantering -- is a do-not-miss event. Can I or you learn to program a VCR in time?

While thinking about homelessness, check out Sewell Chan's "he said, she said" reports in the Empire Zone. Yesterday , a City Hall report a drop in the number of unsheltered homeless they counted (people sleeping outside, on the subway, etc.). Today Mary Brosnahan takes a closer look at the numbers. However, for a really thoughtful critique of Mayor Bloomberg's program for addressing the problem of homelessness in New York City (in any), I suggest you review the last few of the Coalition's press releases here . Sometimes another writer posts so well on a subject that I file away the work, hoping to steal from it later. Here is the Gothamist post on homeless families. Well worth a click. Taken together their impact is remarkable.