An unfortunate breakdown of the four types of homelessness and the kind of issues people face in the United States:
- Transitional Homelessness…
- Episodic Homelessness. ...
- Chronic Homelessness. ...
- Hidden Homelessness.
However, homelessness is prevalent all over the world and the USA is not near the top twenty. In NYC, where I live Int really is the city that never sleeps.
- Today, homelessness in Gothsm has reached the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- In November 2023, there were 92,824 homeless people, including 33,365 homeless children, sleeping each night in NYC municipal shelter system had23,945 single adults slept in shelters each night in November 2023.
- In addition to the primary shelter system operated by the Department of Homeless Services (DHS), the City has implemented a patchwork of other systems to accommodate asylum seekers and new arrivals.
- As of the end of December 2023, the number of people sheltered in these systems was approximately 123,000.
- Families entering shelters come from a few clustered zip codes in the poorest neighborhoods The Big Apple. However, homeless families and single adults come from every community district before shelters.
- The number of homeless New Yorkers sleeping each night in municipal shelters is now 76 percent higherthan it was 10 years ago. The number of homeless single adults is 106 percent higher than it was 10 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.
- Research shows that, compared to homeless families, homeless single adults have higher rates of serious mental illness, addiction disorders, and other severe health problems.
- Each night thousands of unsheltered homeless people sleep on New York City streets, in the subway system, and in other public spaces. There is no accurate measurement of New York City’s unsheltered homeless population, and recent City surveys significantly underestimate the number of unsheltered homeless New Yorkers.
- Studies show that the large majority of unsheltered homeless New Yorkers are people living with mental illness or other severe health problems.
- Black and Hispanic/Latinx New Yorkers are disproportionately affected by homelessness. Approximately 56 percent of heads of household in shelters are Black, 32 percent are Hispanic/Latinx, 7 percent are White, less than 1 percent are Asian-American or Native American, and 4 percent are of unknown race/ethnicity
- In City Fiscal Year 2023, the average length of stay in the DHS shelter system was 412 days for single adults, 437 days for families with children, and 750 days for adult families.
- In November 2019, DHS estimated that 77 percent of adult families, 68 percent of single adults, and 53 percent of families with children sleeping in shelters had at least one disability.