Record 100,000 People in New York Homeless Shelters, 1st time migrants are majority
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/nyregion/nyc-homeless-shelter-population.html
A Record 100,000 People in New York Homeless Shelters
An influx of migrants has contributed to record numbers of people entering the citys shelter system.
New York City passed a woeful milestone this week, spurred by an influx of migrants from the nations southern border: For the first time, there are now over 100,000 people in homeless shelters here, city officials said on Wednesday.
Days earlier, the city said that the number of migrants in shelters had passed 50,000 and that, for the first time, they made up the majority of people in homeless shelters in the city.
The city, under Mayor Eric Adams, has spent over a billion dollars to house the migrants since they started arriving in large numbers in the spring of 2022. It expects to spend over $4 billion by
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In all, about 1 in 80 people in the nations largest city does not have a permanent place to live.
The migrants are now housed at over 150 sites, including hotels, regular shelters, vast emergency relief centers and respite centers that the administration revealed last week do not have showers on site.