Home News State Homeless Population Said t... State Homeless Population Said to Be Larger Than Population in All But Two New York Cities Posted on November 26, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone Next stop, the third largest city in the state: Homelessville, N.Y. Alarming new data compiled by Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi and the Coalition for the Homeless found that 254,866 New Yorkers were homeless at some point over the past year, a number exceeding the population of every community statewide except New York City and Buffalo.