We Went Out To Count All Of The Homeless In New York City, And It Was Devastating

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Surprisingly few were catching trains at this hour.

Robert Johnson

Jan. 29, 2014, 11:05 AM

For several freezing, early-morning hours Monday, Jan. 27, thousands of New York City volunteers patrolled the city's streets and subways looking for undocumented homeless residents.

Last year's survey reported a 13% rise to 64,060 homeless people in shelters and on the street, bucking a national trend of declining rates. This year's numbers won't be available for a few weeks.

Though some people claimed not to be homeless at all, just between apartments or homes.

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Where The Homeless Are (And Are Not)

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/27/2014 23:47 -0500

With food-stamp recipients dominated by 'working age Americans' for the first time in history; and 1.4 million having recently dropped off the benefits rolls, we suspect, extremely sadly, that the following breakdown of homelessness in America is about to get worse. Los Angeles has by far the greatest number of unsheltered homeless in America and New York City the largest population - at around 65,000 - of homeless people in the US. One wonders at the State of the Union tomorrow...