NYC homelessness spending skyrockets 262% to $368M since 2019, yet street homeless population grows 26%, raising serious ...

A new bill takes aim at the city's shelter intake process that requires homeless families to prove they are indeed homeless.

New York City spent roughly $81,000 per person on homeless services last year — amounting to a whopping $368 million in total bills, a shocking new state report found. Spending on the city’s ...

The number of homeless people in New York City shelters rose 53% over the past year, fueled largely by the influx of asylum seekers to the city. “The numbers seem to match with what we're seeing,” ...

A New York State report revealed that New York City spent more than $80,000 per person on services for chronically homeless individuals in fiscal year 2025 as that population grew from its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has inked a new nearly $1.9 billion contract with the city’s hotel industry to provide ...

While the city has largely shuttered its network of emergency shelters for migrants, homeless families are still being housed in 110 hotels, the majority of which lack kitchens. Shelter-provided food ...

An advocacy group that counts the growing number of homeless students in New York City every year released a new brief Monday underscoring a need for more support for these 154,000 children in local ...

A controversial homeless shelter in Brooklyn is plowing ahead after racking up thousands of dollars in violations and a partial stop-work order on the site, enraging neighbors already fed-up with ...