The number of homeless New Yorkers sleeping in city shelters grew 27% during the Adams administration, fueled by crowded and unlivable housing conditions and evictions, a report said.
The Coalition for the Homeless found the number of non-migrant residents needing shelter surged by more than 12,000 people between 2022 and 2025. Though the number of people leaving shelter in the city nearly doubled in the same time period, it wasn’t enough to keep pace with how many New Yorkers were entering the system.
“We’re just going to continue being like a dog chasing its tail and spending a lot of time and effort on Band-Aid solutions until we really start getting to the bottom of the problem …. there’s no place for the lowest income New Yorkers to live,” said Dave Giffen, executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless…