In other words, even though more people are exiting the family shelter system to stable housing than at any time since 2004, a significantly greater number are falling victim to the severe dearth of affordable housing, rising unemployment, and domestic violence – and have been left with nowhere to turn but homeless shelters. While the City’s efforts to date – including a welcome return to reliance on Federal resources like NYCHA public housing and Section 8, and its introduction of a series of new rent subsidy programs – helped over 10,000 families move out of homelessness into stable housing since 2014, the underlying causes of mass homelessness in NYC continue to drive the shelter census upward. The number of adults and children in the family shelter system increased by 14 percent since January 2014 – despite Mayor de Blasio’s efforts to reverse the growing census by both significantly increasing resources for homelessness prevention and providing more permanent housing. In November 2016, nearly 16,000 families, consisting of more than 48,000 people, were sleeping in New York City homeless shelters each night. By Giselle Routhier, Policy Director, Coalition for the Homeless
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