NEW YORK, July 6 (Xinhua) -- The homeless population in New York City in eastern U.S. increased by nearly 40 percent in 2017, according to a new survey. The number of people living in the streets of the America's financial capital spiked by 39 percent to 3,892 this year, the highe...
Recent data points to a troubling rise in homelessness in the U.S., as 2024 marked a record high for the number of people who were without permanent shelter on a single night in 2024. The U.S. homeless population rose to more than 771,000 on a single night counted in late January 2...
Urban Development calculates the homeless population by counting the number of people on the streets and the number of people in homeless shelters on one night each year. According to this count, Los Angeles City and New York City are thecities with the most homeless peoplein the United States...
The Health of Homeless Adults in New York City A Report from the New York City Departments of Health and Mental HygieneGibbs, Linda
Plans hardly catch up with the reality as the city gets more expensive everyday. The number of people in the shelter system has actually increased by 23 percent over the past four years. "His commitment still doesn't match the need," said Shack, but he didn't blame de Blasio for that...
This article reviews existing information about homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gender (LGBT) youth in New York City. It describes how the frequently heard narrative about them--"kicked out" of familial homes to the streets for being LGBT, heavy involvement with hard drugs and sex ...
Homeless people are at increased risk of viral hepatitis, primarily due to high rates of injection drug use. Infection with hepatitis C was found in 22% of homeless men in Los Angeles (Nyamathi, et al., 2002), 32% of individuals using a mobile med- ical van in New York City (...
This chapter evaluates the degree to which young people who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual or transgender (LGBT) and those who are still questioning their own sexual identity are at increased risk of becoming a runaway, thrown-away, or homeless youth because of ...
Bell Tolls as New York Marks the Anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing New York City has marked the anniversary of the 1993 bombing at the old World Trade Center, when Islamic extremists first attempted to bring down the twin towers ...
With homelessness on the rise in the U.S. and a lack of affordable housing, cities and states are cracking down on mushrooming tent encampments. Cities across the U.S. are struggling with and cracking down on tent encampments as the number of homeless people grows, largely due to a lack...