Posted on March 23, 2015 by Eleanor Goldberg in Huffington Post Huffington Post, By Eleanor Goldberg A record number of kids in New York City are homeless and they won’t see any relief until they get access to more affordable housing, a new report concluded. According to the Coalition for the Homeless, 25,000 children in the Big Apple didn’t have a place to call home last year, and the situation has had a particularly dire effect on African American kids, the group said in a report released on Thursday. However, the group said the city could see “unprecedented” drops in child and family homelessness rates if it creates more reasonably priced housing options — a cost-efficient system that has already proven to work.
