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The numbers are stunning. On Sunday, more than 59,200 people slept in New York City shelters, including 23,433 children. As the shelters fill up, thousands of people who are homeless are housed in motels. Beyond that, NYC is trying to develop more permanent sh ..Read More

Homelessness in New York City is at an all-time high thanks to the chronic housing shortage, wage stagnation (and for low-income workers, wage decline), and Governor Andrew Cuomo and former mayor Michael Bloomberg’s elimination of the Advantage rental as ..Read More

On Wednesday, New York City hit a record 59,373 people in shelters overseen by the Department of Homeless Services. There is no clearer indicator of the homelessness crisis than in the Bronx at the intake center for families with children, where on a recent Sa ..Read More

A shortage of supportive housing has helped drive homelessness for single adults to record highs, the Coalition for the Homeless says in a new report. The number of single adults living in city shelters hit an all-time high of 14,442 in March, the group found ..Read More

Fill in the blank. When the economy collapses, the number of homeless Americans goes ___. While you might expect the answer to be “up,” during the recession of 2007-2009 the number of homeless people in America dropped slightly. Compare homelessness across ..Read More

Housing is generally considered affordable if a household allots no more than 30 percent of its income to home payments and utilities. By that standard, more than half of renters in New York City are “cost-burdened” and may find it hard to pay for other ne ..Read More

For three years, Mark Williams has come home to his own studio apartment in a spacious six-story building on the western edge of Fordham manor. But even now, Williams remembers exactly what it’s like to freeze on the New York City streets in the winter: ..Read More

New York City’s homeless population is no monolith, and the 2005 NY/NYIII supportive-housing funding agreement explicitly recognized that. Kingsbridge Terrace, a supportive housing facility run by Jericho Project in the Bronx, was in part funded for R ..Read More