New York City’s homelessness crisis continues to grow.
According to city records, the number of residents living without stable shelter reached an all-time high of 59,068 in mid-December, the New York Daily News reported. The figure marks an uptick from more than 56,000, which was reported by WNYC last October, and a 10 percent increase since Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Inauguration Day about one year ago.
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“We’re targeting particular populations and putting them back into the community and working with them toward self-sufficiency, which is the ultimate goal,” Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, the city’s deputy mayor for health and human services, told The New York Times in August.
