Posted on February 5, 2018 by Emily Nonko in Curbed Curbed, By Emily Nonko In recent years, as the city grapples with a lack of affordable housing, New York’s homeless population has soared. According to a 2017 report by Coalition for the Homeless, which has been fighting the city’s homeless crisis since 1981, more than 62,000 men, women, and children currently sleep in city shelters every night—that’s a 79 percent increase in the demand for shelters over the past decade. As the report states, “Extreme income inequality and unanticipated but rapid growth in the overall population of New York City together continue to push those at the lowest end of the income spectrum out of the housing market entirely.”
