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Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled on Thursday the city’s annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE), the results of an overall count of homeless people in New York City taken on a winter’s night.
During his May 20 press briefing, de Blasio pointed to one “encouraging” finding from the 2021 HOPE survey: an estimated 38% decrease in New Yorkers living without shelter compared to 2020.
“This is an important development. It is the one objective measure we have, and it’s showing us that all this outreach is working more and more and all of those shelter beds, those safe haven beds are working,” de Blasio said.
The report also found a 23% decrease of homeless New Yorkers in the subways, and decreases in all the five boroughs.
De Blasio attributes some of the bright points of the report to an increased outreach effort during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New York City Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services (HRA) Commissioner Steven Banks said the city has tripled the number of outreach staff, from 200 to more than 600, to help with recovery efforts to connect people back to housing.
I invite you to take some walks or go on the trains in the south bronx and harlem.
He wouldn't have much of a basis of comparison for a drop or rise from last year to this year, because he probably wasn't hanging out much in the South Bronx and Harlem either.
He wouldn't have much of a basis of comparison for a drop or rise from last year to this year, because he probably wasn't hanging out much in the South Bronx and Harlem either.
He wouldn't have much of a basis of comparison for a drop or rise from last year to this year, because he probably wasn't hanging out much in the South Bronx and Harlem either.
so you've been in the South Bronx and Harlem lately?
just asking for a friend
so you've been in the South Bronx and Harlem lately?
just asking for a friend
Just parts of Harlem, but my point was that since it's a relative change, it's hard to say if things have gotten better or worse if you don't have much of a reference point for how they were in the first place. There's certainly a lot of variability among NYC neighborhoods, right?
he bought them all $400/night hotel rooms so they're not homeless anymore, he was very generous with your money
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