A WSS 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homeless Shelter

• School: SUNY Albany
• Department: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Course: A WSS 202
• Professor: Yates

Document Summary

In recent years, homelessness in new york city has reached the highest levels since the. In september 2015, there were 59,305 homeless people, including 14,280 homeless families with 23,923 homeless children, sleeping each night in the new york. Families comprise nearly four-fifths of the homeless shelter population. Over the course of the last city fiscal year (fy 2014), more than 116,000 different homeless men, women, and children sleep in the new york city municipal shelter system. This includes nearly 42,000 different homeless new york city children. The number of homeless new yorkers sleeping each night in municipal shelters is now 85 percent higher than it was ten years ago. Research shows that the primary cause of homelessness, particularly among families, is lack of affordable housing. Surveys of homeless families have identified the following major immediate, triggering causes of homelessness: eviction; doubled-up or severely overcrowded housing; domestic violence; job loss; and hazardous housing conditions.