Posted on May 7, 2015 by The Editorial Board in The New York Times The New York Times, By The Editorial Board The crisis of homelessness that ballooned under Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows no signs of deflating anytime soon under his successor, Bill de Blasio. Nearly 57,000 people were sleeping in city shelters at last count, 24,000 of them children. It was a disaster then. It is a disaster now. The responsibility for it is widespread. It’s an inescapable fact that the number of people forced to live on the streets of New York City rises and falls based on political calculations made far up the Hudson River, in Albany, and in the nation’s capital. And, of course, on the willingness and ability of City Hall to grapple with the problem.
