Posted on October 15, 2015 by Kim Velsey in New York Observer New York Observer, By Kim Velsey New York City bears the cost of housing homeless single adults almost entirely on its own, a shift from the recent past, in which the state shouldered a much larger share of the burden, a new report from the Independent Budget Office finds. The funding decrease took place against the backdrop of the city’s growing homeless problem, which Mayor Bill de Blasio has faced sharp criticism for failing to curb. Of late, the mayor has acknowledged that street homelessness—a problem that afflicts primarily single adults—had worsened during his term, emphasizing that it was an issue he inherited from his predecessor.
