Thursday, December 20, 2018

14 Percent of the Nation's Homeless Population Are in New York City

 
By Kristin Toussaint

The number of people experiencing homelessness in New York City has been growing, according to an annual report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

HUD’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report for 2018, released this week, found that on a single night in Jan. 2018, a total of 552,830 people experienced homelessness across the country. New York City accounted for 78,676 of those people, or just over 14 percent of the nation’s homeless.

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Source: Metro (via Empire Report New York) 

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