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In November, there were 60,352 homeless people in the city, including 25,000 children, up more than 10 percent on the 53,615 who were homeless in January 2014, according to the website for charity Coalition for the Homeless.
Patrick Markee, deputy executive director for Advocacy Coalition for the Homeless, said the "historic homelessness crisis" in New York had worsened since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014.
He blamed the city's acute housing affordability crisis, policies of previous mayor Michael Bloomberg and failures in restoring permanent housing assistance for homeless families and children.
originally posted by: Yeahkeepwatchingme
a reply to: lostbook
I always read the story about the Mole People was a fake created by an author. She made up stories about hitmen for as low as $20 each and a man called Angel. I'm too tired to go digging on the net unfortunately.
However, I do believe there are underground communities. Perhaps as organized as the one portrayed in the 80s series Beauty and the Beast, and surely there's some that are more loosely organized.
Amazing, the city takes in tons of money and they still can't manage to take care of the homeless, let alone make the city truly work right... S + F
originally posted by: Yeahkeepwatchingme
a reply to: lostbook
I always read the story about the Mole People was a fake created by an author. She made up stories about hitmen for as low as $20 each and a man called Angel. I'm too tired to go digging on the net unfortunately.
However, I do believe there are underground communities. Perhaps as organized as the one portrayed in the 80s series Beauty and the Beast, and surely there's some that are more loosely organized.
Amazing, the city takes in tons of money and they still can't manage to take care of the homeless, let alone make the city truly work right... S + F
On a side note, it certainly appears that the homelessness problems concentrate around areas that have the highest cost of living compbined with being ports of entry for high levels of immigration. I wonder how many of the number of homeless are immigrants, both legal and illegal...