NEW YORK | New York is known for its multimillionaires and exorbitantly rented luxury towers, but America’s largest city has also just broken a new record of 60,000 homeless people.
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“Tonight, 60,352 people will sleep in shelters in the city,” including more than 25,000 children, the Coalition for the Homeless said Tuesday on its website.
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This is 11% more than in January 2014, compared to the 53,615 homeless people hosted by the city in January 2014, according to the site.
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Families represent four-fifths of this itinerant population.
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According to Patrick Markee, deputy director of the coalition, the historic homelessness crisis in New York has worsened further since the arrival of Mayor Bill de Blasio in January 2014.
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His reasons are, according to him, the lack of low-cost housing, the policies of former mayor Michael Bloomberg on housing assistance, and the fact that housing assistance has not been reinstated for homeless families.
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio briefly touched on the issue in his State of the City address on Tuesday, saying he made it his business to fix the homeless veterans issue by the end of it. of the year.
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And he’s also pledged to provide 10,000 social housing units to retirees who can’t afford “normal” New York City rents, which can exceed US $ 10,000 for a three-room apartment in some Manhattan neighborhoods.
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