(photo: Edwin J. Torres/Mayor's Office)
Is the number of people homeless on New York City streets skyrocketing?
There were 3,892 unsheltered homeless people on the streets or outside in public places on the cold night this past February when New York City conducted its annual street homelessness count, according to the City’s own statistics released this month. That’s a jolting 39-plus percent increase in one year over the 2016 street homelessness count of 2,794.
The good news is that many advocates and academics don’t
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