State Homeless Population Said to Be Larger Than Population in All But Two New York Cities

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.