Number of street homeless New Yorkers rises as city braces for federal funding cuts

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About 4,504 homeless New Yorkers slept in the street this year, a slight increase from the year before, according to new numbers released by the Adams administration on Thursday.

The Homeless Outreach Population Survey, or HOPE count, is a point-in-time tally of how many people slept on the subways, parks or outside on a single night in January…

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