Homelessness in New York City – IRP Poverty Dispatch

New York City leads jump in homeless, By Michael Howard Saul, March 4, 2013, Wall Street Journal: “An average of more than 50,000 people slept each night in New York City’s homeless shelters for the first time in January, a record that underscores an unsettling national trend: a rising number of families without permanent housing. Families have become a larger share of the nation’s homeless population, growing 1.4% from 2011 to 2012, after their numbers fell as the economy emerged from recession…”
50K homeless in NYC shelters nightly, report says, By Jennifer Peltz (AP), March 5, 2013, NorthJersey.com: “More than 50,000 homeless people a night — the most in decades— are now in New York City’s homeless shelters, a spike that mirrors the largest increase in overall homelessness among the nation’s cities last year, according to a report released Tuesday. Homelessness has been a troubling and contentious aspect of life the nation’s biggest city for decades. But it has become an escalating crisis in recent years amid a chronic shortage of affordable housing and an unemployment rate higher than state and national levels…”