Home News Most New Yorkers are Roughly 1 P... Most New Yorkers are Roughly 1 Paycheck Away From Homelessness: Study Posted on November 28, 2016 by Jacquelyn Simone More than half of all New Yorkers are teetering on the brink of homelessness — without enough cash in the bank to cover them in the event of a disaster or lost job, a troubling new study has found. Nearly 60 percent of all New Yorkers don’t have enough emergency savings to cover at least three months’ worth of household expenses like food, housing and rent, according to a recent report from the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development.