Gothamist: Number of street homeless New Yorkers rises as city braces for federal funding cuts
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.
The Department of Social Services, which oversees the count, said the number of street homeless individuals represents 3.5% of the city’s overall homeless population.