NYC spends more per homeless person than a typical household earns in a year, data shows

NYC homelessness spending skyrockets 262% to $368M since 2019, yet street homeless population grows 26%, raising serious questions about program effectiveness.
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Homeless dad allegedly abandoned 1-year-old baby girl in New York City’s Times Square

The girl was found in an overturned stroller.
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NYC Families Seeking Shelter Have to Prove They’re Homeless. A New Bill Would Simplify That Process.

A new bill takes aim at the city's shelter intake process that requires homeless families to prove they are indeed homeless.

Inside a Once-Grand Building That Housed the Vulnerable for a Century

A shelter for men near Bellevue Hospital is closing. It is a symbol of an approach to homelessness that the Mamdani ...

Staten Island councilman urges halt to new homeless shelters after court ruling

The call comes after a New York state Supreme Court judge stopped a Manhattan shelter relocation over public review concerns.
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Mamdani reboots homeless encampment sweeps in New York City

NEW YORK(AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city will resume clearing makeshift homeless encampments, promising to take a more humane approach to a practice he previously ...
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Opinion: The price of complicity

The tension between your ethics and your routine acts of complicity is ever-present. Trying to maintain principles of ...

Two men stabbed, one fatally, outside Hell’s Kitchen homeless drop-in center

The pre-dawn clash sparked off outside Urban Pathways 9th Avenue Drop-In Center on Ninth Ave. near W. 52nd St. about 4:45 a.m ...
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Opinion: Lessons From New York’s Deadly Winter

Cold weather does not disprove climate change. It reveals its sharpest edge: that as the climate grows more extreme, survival ...