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NYC has a massive growing population of homeless and they are bold enough to take up while benches on the train during rush hours. That should be factored in there as well. I avoid the subways as much as possible.
What train lines?
I take the D,F, 6, and 4 lines on a regular basis and nothing much has changed.
The E is one of the worst with homeless and mentally ill during rush hours. It has been mentioned that because unlike with the F train, the E train doesn't always get cleared at Jamaica Center.
I see a lot of homeless on the 1 train whenever I take it. Others here report more homeless on the E train.
But different people have different perceptions, so you can't base this on what you or I saw personally. The overall stats for homelessness are up.
Stats for homelessness may be up but that doesn't necessarily translate to more homeless on subway cars.
Furthermore, more homelessness is being reported which doesn't necessarily mean that there are more homeless.
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On Monday night, 3,000 volunteers fanned out on the streets to find out. Last February, the annual census showed no substantial change from the previous two years. Still, New York’s street population is only a small proportion of homeless people in the city. The city’s shelter population is 10 times the size of other big cities’, largely because New York is one of the few places legally required to provide housing for those without it.
Stats for homelessness may be up but that doesn't necessarily translate to more homeless on subway cars.
Furthermore, more homelessness is being reported which doesn't necessarily mean that there are more homeless.
Not just a matter of homelessness being reported. For various socioeconomic reasons, homelessness is up. Also those people swept up in the 90s by the cops under the Giuliani era? You do realize when they get out of jail they contribute to the homelessness as one can be denied employment and housing due to having a criminal record?
Not just a matter of homelessness being reported. For various socioeconomic reasons, homelessness is up. Also those people swept up in the 90s by the cops under the Giuliani era? You do realize when they get out of jail they contribute to the homelessness as one can be denied employment and housing due to having a criminal record?
The city took a census (Feb 2015) and they didn't find any appreciable rise in homelessness over the past 2 years.
Giuliani became mayor in 1994 and Bloomberg took over in 2002. Did all those arrested under Giuliani get 14-22 years in prison? and are only now coming out?
With unemployment at 5.5%, those with an arrest record have the best shot at getting jobs. The lower end job market is extremely tight right now.
Shut up! what does blacklivesmatter have to do with this?? It's absurd for you to think that a group of people who are calling out racial injustices & the lack of accountability when a black life in taken by a cop in America, is going to deny, for some odd reason that the city is not dangerous???
Would NYC feel safe enough for you if the nypd went around killing random innocent people of color???
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Of coarse it is. It's totally obvious. You sense it in the air. This is all Mayor De Bl*******'s doing along with his liberal progressive goons.
Waiting on the libturds, the Black Lives Matter, the Hands Up Don't Shoot rejects to respond, defending this piece of scum and saying NYC hasn't gotten more dangerous or doesn't feel anymore dangerous.
The city took a census (Feb 2015) and they didn't find any appreciable rise in homelessness over the past 2 years.
Giuliani became mayor in 1994 and Bloomberg took over in 2002. Did all those arrested under Giuliani get 14-22 years in prison? and are only now coming out?
With unemployment at 5.5%, those with an arrest record have the best shot at getting jobs. The lower end job market is extremely tight right now.
De Blasio was the mayor in 2015, and he wanted to IGNORE the HOMELESS problem.
The number of street homeless seem to be up from the 311 calls.
But counting the homeless staying in shelters at any one point.
" The city’s shelter population is 10 times the size of other big cities’, largely because New York is one of the few places legally required to provide housing for those without it. There is no question the shelter population has been growing rapidly over the last several years. But why that is happening — and what to do about it — are a matter of dispute."
"2011 Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo cuts the state contribution to rental subsidies, and Mr. Bloomberg dismantles the program. Over the next three years, the shelter population explodes.
2015 After peaking at 60,939 at the end of 2014, the homeless population ebbs for a few months. But last August, it again started to rise."
They specifically cite in 2011 when Cuomo and Bloomberg ENDED a rental voucher program in being a factor why the HOMELESS population exploded. The Times said the homeless population has been growing since last August again.
"The bellwethers of a housing crisis for those at the bottom are apparent everywhere. The number of poor people with staggering rent bills has resumed climbing after a brief respite.
And the schools every year count more students in unstable housing, which includes not only those living in shelters or on the streets, but also those doubling up with relatives."
Okay so an increasing number of people can barely pay their rent, and schools not only count more students living in shelters or in the streets, but those doubling up with relatives as UNSTABLE housing.
True NYC was bit better during Bloomberg how many years left for current mayor
He started in 2013, so I presume election happens next year?
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