As National Homeless Rates Drop, Why Are NY Populations Exploding?

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As National Homeless Rates Drop, Why Are NY Populations Exploding?

November 19th, 2015

Awake Goy

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November 19, 2015

Speaking at an event hosted by the conservative organization, the Manhattan Institute, New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said that the city’s homeless population has “exploded” between 2013 and 2015; as the epidemic spread across the nation.

Bratton blamed the de Blassio administration who “early on was not validating what everyone was seeing.”

The commissioner also blamed recent “court decisions [that] had made it more difficult for police officers to remove homeless people from the street.”

Deborah de Santis, president and chief executive officer for the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), wrote in an op-ed piece that New York Mayor Bill de Blassio has promised to “create 15,000 units of supportive housing to provide stable homes for” the city’s homeless.

Santis pointed out that “the idea of pairing affordable housing with access to case management and supportive services was a novel one in the 1980s and 1990s, but there is now ample evidence that proves supportive housing is the most effective intervention to end homelessness and address a host of other obstacles faced by those on the street for long periods of time. Supportive housing works for many people and has been particularly successful in reducing the numbers of military veterans thrown into homelessness after their service to our nation.”

Across the nation, the number of homeless has dropped by 2%, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

HUD’s survey concluded that for 2015, the number of homeless comes to 565,000, which is 13,000 less than the number of homeless tallied in 2014.

This report shows homelessness down in states such as:

• Alabama
• City of Houston
• Michigan
• Rhode Island

Part of the issue overall is the number of US veterans who are homeless which is estimated at 47,000. However, this number has dropped by 4% from last year, partially because of a joint collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and HUD to give former service men and women vouchers for rental subsidies.

This program is expected to gain an additional $12 million for expansion.