As subway homeless population grows, new $6M outreach effort by city and MTA to launch in July

The homeless population in the subway has soared 90% in recent years, prompting an ambitious new effort to get the troubled riders assistance and off the rails, city officials said. The city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are funding a $6 million outreach program that for the first time will regularly seek to engage the homeless in all 468 stations and on trains while they are in service — not just at end-of-the-line terminals or select “hot spots,” city officials said.