That's how many there were sleeping in NYC homeless shelters in January of this year; last January there were 50,135 people, 7% less. And it gets worse. More than 40% of the homeless are children; the 22,712 children sleeping in homeless shelters in January 2014 was 8% more than last year. And the average stay for homeless families with children is more than a year.
The annual report by the Coalition for the Homeless attributes the increasing problem to the “disastrous homeless policies” implemented by Bloomberg; the city’s worsening housing affordability; and the growing income inequality gap.
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