Overview
A combination of rising rents in private housing, lack of turnover in public housing, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and reductions in arrest and incarceration for quality of life crimes have contributed to record levels of homeless living in shelters and on the streets of New York City.
14%
The city accounts for 2.7% of the nation’s total population, but 14% of the nation's homeless.
60,210
New York City's sheltered homeless population was 60,210 in 2016, up 54% from 2011.