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Spending on the city’s Department of Homeless Services’ Street Homeless Solutions division more than tripled over the last six years, from $102 million in 2019, according to the report from the state comptroller’s office.
That year, the city was spending about $28,000 per “unsheltered homeless person,” the report released Wednesday found. Unsheltered homeless people constitute those living regularly on the streets, compared to those who are in some kind of affordable housing or long-term shelter system. The Big Apple’s unsheltered homeless population increased by 26% over the same timeframe, the report found. The city is spending nearly three times more per unsheltered homeless person than it did before the pandemic.About 3,588 unsheltered homeless people were reported in the 2019 fiscal year, while 4,505 were reported in the fiscal year 2025. “The number of people living on the street in New York City has continued to grow, even as the city has been effective at providing shelter for the majority of the homeless population,” State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said in the report.LA now paying for homeless to stay in trendy beachside hotel – in rooms that cost $625K each“The escalation in spending driven by the increase in the unsheltered population, however, merits greater focus on where resources are going and what services are working,” he said. “Street homelessness is a chronic problem that requires collaborative efforts to help bring vulnerable New Yorkers into shelter and out of the cold.” Spending on services for unsheltered homeless people is expected to continue increasing to about $456 million by the 2026 fiscal year, the comptroller’s office found. The increase in costs over the last six years has largely come from “low-barrier beds,” which consist of easily accessible overnight shelters intended to appeal to people wary of the system.The city’s overall homeless population totals around 140,000 people, and has grown nearly 78% since 2019, according to the comptroller’s office. The city has been able to provide some kind of shelter to about 97%, which DiNapoli’s office noted was “a notable achievement.”to serve as homeless housing for a system similar to the one former Mayor Eric Adams employed to get migrants beds as they flowed into the Big Apple. And while the new mayor initially vowed to eliminate homeless encampment sweeps and let people stay on the streets if they wanted to, in February,Mamdani vowed that his homeless sweeps would have “better outcomes” than those conducted under his predecessor Adams, and would be led by city DHS workers.Life-threatening blizzard bomb cyclone to unleash feet of snow, destructive winds as storm rapidly intensifies2.6KGet ready for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale 2026 — dates, early deals and inside infoBrittany Aldean shows off green bikini in spring break beach photos with familyStream It Or Skip It: 'The Madison' On Paramount+, Where Michelle Pfeiffer Is A New York Woman Who Goes To Montana To Deal With Her Grief After A Tragedy
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