New York’s Homelessness Worst Since The Great Depression

As the WSJ reports, more than 21,000 children an unprecedented 1% of the citys youth slept each night in a city shelter in January, an increase of 22% in the past year; as homeless families now spend more than a year in a shelter, on average, for the first time since 1987. New York City has seen one of the steepest increases in homeless families in the past decade, advocates said, growing 73% since 2002, and is facing a homeless crisis worse than any time since the Great Depression.



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