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How do you comment on more than 100 thousand homeless children in NYC? Are they also a part of some cash scheme? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/nyregion/ny

• woodruffw 4y ago
  Your own article addresses this: NYC (correctly!) counts students as homeless even if they're living long-term with other families or in family shelters, of which the city has many. "100,000 homeless children" does not mean "100,000 street urchins." It means that many of the people who make up NYC's informal economy have living situations that the city (again, correctly) classifies as unstable, or who are dependent on the city for stable housing.
  • PaulHoule 4y ago
    The eye-popping numbers of "homeless" in NYC are not comparable to the situation in California. Many of the "homeless" in NYC are immigrant families in shelters. As NYC is a portal for immigrants coming to the US and some of them end up in difficulty, this is how it is. This is different from the situation in California where the "homeless" really are sleeping outside.
    • woodruffw 4y ago
      Precisely. There are very few things that I give the city credit for with respect to how it treats its homeless and unhoused populations, but categorization is one of them: the city doesn't attempt to sweep the problem under the rug by pretending that shelters (including family shelters) are long-term housing solutions that offer stable lives for their residents.